From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 17:17:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F1041065674 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:17:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1207673405.874334@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (student.mired.org [66.92.153.77]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63D88FC18 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:17:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1207673405.874334@mired.org) Received: (qmail 56324 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Mar 2008 12:50:05 -0400 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (192.168.195.1) by bhuda.mired.org (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:50:04 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:50:04 -0400 To: JoaoBR Message-ID: <20080329125004.5d857e66@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200803290920.30616.joao@matik.com.br> References: <25B2B1B9-0CF8-4D12-ACBA-3C8FF61A4D00@uos.de> <200803280839.17665.joao@matik.com.br> <20080329152110.0b20d53c@duncan.reilly.home> <200803290920.30616.joao@matik.com.br> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Mike Meyer X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:53:37 +0000 Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg nv driver 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: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:17:36 -0000 On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:20:30 -0300 JoaoBR wrote: > On Saturday 29 March 2008 01:21:10 Andrew Reilly wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:39:17 -0300 > > > > JoaoBR wrote: > > > well, the nv driver tends to hang xorg on amd64, at least with all nvidia > > > cards I tried. you can still login remotly and restart xorg but that is > > > quiet annoying to do every 10 minutes ... appearently it happens only > > > with X2 or better on any SMP kernel config and seems it doesn't matter > > > disabling the cores because it seems to be a xorg problem and not a os > > > problem, so my solution was ati/radeon > > > > I have a similar experience (although nv did work for me at one > > stage, it doesn't now.) Out of interest, what sort of ATI card > > did you get, and how well does it go with Xorg's driver? I'm > > coming to the conclusion that replacing my GeForce 6600LE card > > is the only way I'm going to get something better than the vesa > > driver. > > any ATI seems to work fine but note I do not need high end graphics, running > KDE smooth and stable is what makes me happy That's my experience as well, but I don't want high end graphics either. I just want multiple large, stable displays. Because of that, I do tend to by cheaper (which mostly means older) cards, which have had more time for the OSS developers to get working properly. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.