From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 19 16:01:43 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 AC12B1065671 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:01:43 +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 7632D8FC0C for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:01:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 21079 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2008 16:01:43 -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 16:01:43 -0000 Message-ID: <48820D67.8060100@telenix.org> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:51:03 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hartzell@alerce.com References: <200807191038.26500.shinjii@maydias.com> <18561.16452.345863.889045@almost.alerce.com> <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.> <18562.3813.193149.206667@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <18562.3813.193149.206667@almost.alerce.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: RW , 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 16:01:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 George Hartzell wrote: > RW writes: > > 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. > > I'm running amd64, so I didn't even try the proprietary one. I have an amd64 host, but I don't run FreeBSD on that one, I sort of spread myself out so I can cover a few extra platforms. I did hear that the nvidia driver didn't work on amd64, but I couldn't tell you why. It's probably covered onthe FreeBSD-multimedia mailing list, and I would search the archives of that list before bothering folks on that. The FreeBSD mailing list archives are great resources. > > g. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 iEYEARECAAYFAkiCDWcACgkQz62J6PPcoOlR6wCfVuohVUf///FzhyQjVZYEu72T HJ0AoJUh+GhXcQq0tqpGHNRukVmT6VGD =ichG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----