From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 22:25:55 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 E215E106566C for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aline@riseup.net) Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [204.13.164.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DD38FC22 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aline@riseup.net) Received: from cassowary (cassowary.riseup.net [204.13.164.38]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C7F570080; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:25:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:25:50 -0800 (PST) From: aline To: alive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080305171303.GA35180@slackbox.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/6142/Wed Mar 5 12:09:30 2008 on mx1.riseup.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Isaac Mushinsky , Roland Smith , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:25:56 -0000 On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, alive wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:13:03 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: >>> I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating >>> installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some >>> problems. >>> >>> My nvidia card will not be of much use (GeForce 8500GT), since >> nvidia-drivers >>> are not there for amd64, and the open source nv driver does not even >> support >>> XVideo extension for these cards. I can downgrade to a nv 7xxx series >> card, >>> which works better with the open driver. I do not mind loss of 3D >> support, >>> but would need basic things like mplayer. >> >> Any ATI card up to and including the 9250 (rv280) is fully supported on >> amd64, 3D and all. (I know because I've got one :-) > Oh, is that so? Could you please tell me how you got it to work? Because > I've got GREAT issues getting *ANY* ATI card to work with at least > Composite on FreeBSD and/or Linux. And I've even got i386. Or has something > happened since I last cried myself to sleep over this driverless hell? > -- > Sincerely, > Rada > I own a Radeon 9600 pro and with the xf86-video-ati from git tree I can get 3D and even tv-out through xrandr. I believe that that the new 6.8.0 (which still is not in the ports tree) We'll gona be able to have everything (3D, tv-out) out-of-the-box in the same way as the git one. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >