From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 19 15:46:14 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 4AE3B1065674 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F7E8FC1A for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 6080 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2008 15:46:13 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2008 15:46:12 -0000 Message-ID: <488209C5.5020808@telenix.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:35:33 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RW References: <200807191038.26500.shinjii@maydias.com> <18561.16452.345863.889045@almost.alerce.com> <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card Info 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: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:46:14 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 > George Hartzell 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-----