Subject: Re: nvidia support in X (Was Re: your mail)
To: None <netbsd-port-i386@quatriemek.com, stevejohnson46@comcast.net,>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/25/2003 15:31:51
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:17:13AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
...
> yet xvinfo says this:
> X-Video Extension version 2.2
> screen #0
>  no adaptors present
> 
> and anything trying to use xvideo or GLX fails.
> It is simply not supported by anything but the true nvidia driver for older
> cards, it seems, and nvidia is too tight-mouthed to let us support it.

I get

X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "NV Video Overlay"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 53
    operations supported: PutImage 
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x21
      depth 24, visualID 0x22
    number of attributes: 9
...

with

vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: Nvidia Corporation product 0x0321 (rev. 0xa1)

(suggested addition to /sys/dev/pci/pciidevs:
   product NVIDIA  GEFORCE_FX5200U 0x0321  GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
although it "Creative Blaster5" written on the box here and there)

Does that mean Nvidia let some secrets escape?

Cheers,

Patrick