From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 29 18:08:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9808C16A407 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:08:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1168278165.90765b@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (vpn.mired.org [66.92.153.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 275D413C455 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:08:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1168278165.90765b@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30634 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Dec 2006 17:42:45 -0000 Received: by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1001); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:42:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17813.21396.750295.449657@bhuda.mired.org> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:42:44 -0500 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200612291804.34166.groot@kde.org> References: <200612291804.34166.groot@kde.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64+NVIDIA X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:08:57 -0000 In <200612291804.34166.groot@kde.org>, Adriaan de Groot typed: > On Friday 29 December 2006 17:02, Fulvio Mariola wrote: > > I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 to the notebook. The graphic-card > > is NVIDIA GeFORCE Go 7600. > > The NVIDIA vendor don't release driver for This architecture. > > Can I try?? > You can use the open source nv(4x) driver; this will probably be "fast enough" > although it is notably missing any dual head features (might be important if > you need to do presentations with the laptop). It also doesn't support wide-screen LCD's properly. It seems to insist that they be 4:3, and topped out at 1024x768. > > I make the kernel or to return at ix86 architecture? > Yes, i386 runs fine on amd64 machines. > [ade], running i386 on this amd64x2 because of dual-head + nvidia, but > thinking of swapping in a leftover ATI R300 I switched to ATI to get proper support for a widescreen LCD. Before that, I ran dual head with two NVidia cards. That worked fine. If you've got a spare slot, dropping an older card into one to get a second headg is inexpensive. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.