On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:17:17AM -0400, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: > I want to know if a change in the X server will affect my video drivers, i > have a nvidia video card(GeForce2) i download the drivers from the nvidia > site(I WANT 3D ACCELERATION!!!) for FreeBSD now my question is If y change > from XFree86 to X what happens with the drivers?
You can run X.Org X server with the Nvidia driver:
% grep NVIDIA /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
(II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-4365 Wed May 28 09:23:41 PDT 2003
(II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs
(--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found
....
Here's a patch you can apply to the x11/nvidia-driver Makefile so that
it will correctly identify various files that port replaces:
--- Makefile.XFree86 Fri Jul 9 13:27:30 2004
+++ Makefile Fri Jul 9 13:30:03 2004
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
# XXX Should use ${PKG_INFO} XXX
#
-XSERVVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server 2>/dev/null |
${GREP} Server- || true
-XLIBVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11/XFree86-4-libraries 2>/dev/null | ${GREP}
libraries- || true
+XSERVVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11-servers/xorg-server 2>/dev/null | ${GREP}
server- || true
+XLIBVERSION!= /usr/sbin/pkg_info -O x11/xorg-libraries 2>/dev/null | ${GREP}
libraries- || true
PLIST_SUB= XSERVVERSION=${XSERVVERSION} XLIBVERSION=${XLIBVERSION} \
LINUXBASE=${LINUXBASE} NVVERSION=${NVVERSION}
Note that you don't need to apply this patch -- it just helps should
you want to deinstall the nvidia-driver port.
When switching from XFree86 to X.Org I also found that it paid to look
again at the AGP settings -- whether to use the standard FreeBSD
agp(4) driver, or the one that comes with the Nvidia driver.
Cheers,
Matthew
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