Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:35:33 -0400 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card Info Message-ID: <488209C5.5020808@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <200807191038.26500.shinjii@maydias.com> <18561.16452.345863.889045@almost.alerce.com> <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 > George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote: > >> Warren Liddell writes: >> > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card >> > an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within >> > FreeBSD with this particular video card ? >> >> I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the >> xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it >> works fine. > > But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow, > makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support. > > The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through. You should mention that the Nvidia driver that Nvidia distributes (and is represented within FreeBSD by a port which builds & installs with no difficulty at all) works just fine. I personally have the Nvidia 8600GTS, I use that driver, and it's a perfectly fine option. > _______________________________________________ > 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" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiCCcUACgkQz62J6PPcoOlC0gCfY1t2ZaXuvzBwSgzmGwgfgI06 +kgAmgJd/jEaUggqD5gE2M0K5m3FobOi =i0jc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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