Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 01:20:33 +0200 From: "Danny Pansters" <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation on AMD64 Message-ID: <200804020120.33481.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <fstc0h$bdn$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <16d3abd60804010444q3936889m436e979276f23ad8@mail.gmail.com> <fstc0h$bdn$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:06:24 Ivan Voras wrote: > S=E9bastien Morand wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new in FreeBSD, I'm used to GNU/Linux from many years but I'm trying > > to migrate to FreeBSD. > > My hardware is AMD64 / 1GB RAM / envy24ht network car / nVidia 7300GS GC > > / USB Scanner / HP 660 Printer > > This looks like a desktop computer, with multimedia capabilities. It's > very likely you won't be able to use some or all of the non-essential > components. > > > So nothing to worry about except the AMD64. I read that FreeBSD i386 > > installation is faster on AMD64 than amd64. > > This is not very likely, or at least as valid as in any other comparison > between a 32-bit and a 64-bit operating systems. > > > I installed amd64 and was quite > > disappointed by the performance issue, particularly because the nv driv= er > > is not good, and I got a lot of slowdown when some operations are made > > within X server. > > Yes, nVidia doesn't have good FreeBSD drivers, and I think they don't > have any drivers for 64-bit FreeBSD. You're probably using the default As you should know, they have a published wishlist of certain kernel=20 requirements that "we" have yet to implement. > X.Org drivers, which have only basic functionality. I found that with a gforce (SLI) card in my amd64 box I have to disable any= =20 and all HW acceleration. The xorg drivers have more functionality but it=20 needs to be disabled for xorg to work at all without freezing (with anythin= g=20 multithreaded -- this last observation is mine). People send one complaint after another but no one seems to be able to conn= ect=20 the dots let alone look at the real problems. And no, I don't care enough=20 about my spare (testing) box to fix it but the problems are real. > > > So before reinstalling everything, I'd like to know : > > Is it a reasonable choice (in terme of performance, reliability, and > > compatibility terms) to install i386 over amd64 arch? > > Will I be able to install nvidia drivers and every i386 tools? (I got > > "only working under i386" several times when installing port) > > Are there other issues I should be aware of using such an installation? > > While there are people using FreeBSD for a graphical desktop, and some > of them are even using the 64-bit version, they are few and far between, > and most of them are satisfied with the bare essentials. For X.Org > issues you might try the freebsd-x11@ mailing list. For issues with > specific ports, try stable@ or freebsd-ports@. Be ready for a lot of > manual configuration (as compared to Linux). It's considered TIER-1. It doesn't come close. Dan
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