From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 22:58:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA5110656A2 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1E28FC1A for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:58:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KlX7u-0001H8-3u; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:58:30 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id m92MwTTd029372; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:58:29 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EBD44FCA4AD; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:58:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:58:23 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Mungyung Ryu Message-ID: <20081002225823.GA13439@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Mungyung Ryu , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'http://www.shute.org.uk/' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:58:29 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:58:35 -0000 On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:18:10PM -0400, Mungyung Ryu wrote: > > Hi BSD folks! > > I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. > I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver > for Linux or FreeBSD! > So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce. > I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be > enough, > but it should support 1920x1200 resolution. > I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64. > Anybody can recommend? Have you tried using: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati? That should build on your machine. You can use: x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv with Nvidia cards on AMD64. The supported cards are listed in the manpage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.0/doc/html/nv.4.html Cards that will drive your resolution are mentioned in this discussion: http://fixunix.com/hardware/8213-what-video-card-support-1920x1200-dvi-resolution.html I dare say anything newish should manage it. I use the nv driver and am quite happy with it (I'm a desktop user but non-gameplayer). It's rock solid in my experience and preferable to running a blob. > > Second, I want to use zero-copy facility of FreeBSD. > As far as I know, the hardware (NIC) support (Scatter-Gather DMA) is needed > for that as well as using sendfile() api. > Among the NIC products which has SGDMA function in the market, > which one is the most well supported by FreeBSD 7R - amd64? > I got a technical support from Intel, and they said there is no Intel NIC > which supports SGDMA. > That is so surprising.. isn't it? Don't know anything about this, I'm afraid :( But I suggest you search for NICs that do SGDMA & then see if FreeBSD supports it by looking at an appropriate manpage (if there is a driver). > > The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD. > > Thanks. > Don't give up hope! The video should be easy to sort out, don't know about the NIC though. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html