Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:35:31 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 Message-ID: <201112151235.33191.matt@chronos.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20111215103038.2c482bf8@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <20111213222156.218250@gmx.com> <20111214161011.6606cb26@ernst.jennejohn.org> <20111215103038.2c482bf8@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Thursday 15 Dec 2011 09:30:38 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Just for the record it turns out that the signal 11 was apparently > the result of having AIGLX (default) set for xorg-srerver. After > disabling the option Xorg appears to be running stabily using > nvidia-driver. This wouldn't, by any chance, be an Asus variant of an nVidia design would it? The only nVidia based cards I've ever had problems with have been Asus, with various "overclock," "hypercache" and other fancy- sounding buzzword tweaks appended to the model number which have turned out to deviate just enough from the reference to cause problems on anything but Windows. Which brings us to another snippet of information: Always try to get as close to the reference design as possible. Palit, XFX (watch the fans on these), Gainward, even Sparkle. Never buy an Asus card specifically for FreeBSD. I suspect a VBIOS flash with default clocks and options would mitigate many of the issues on the Asus boards but I'm just not patient enough to bother ripping low-end cards to pieces to identify the memory timings and troll through the VBIOS archives to find a matching flash. We're getting off-topic now, so I'll shut up ;o) E-mail in .sig is valid if anyone wants to contact me off-list. -- Matt Dawson MTD15-RIPE matt@chronos.org.uk
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