Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:31:07 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Hans Nieser" <hans@nieser.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKENLFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <4383136B.9020409@nieser.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Hans Nieser [mailto:hans@nieser.net] >Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 4:48 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express? > > >Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> This is correct. The various driver authors who have been >> affected by the PCI Express issue have implemented logic in >> their probe code that activates the devices on pci express busses, >> so for most devices it's a non-issue. But this is kludgy and >> there's been discussion in the core as to try to get someone >> to write a PCI Express driver that would talk to the bus >> and would handle the devices the way the buss is intended. >> >> You still get weirdness though - for example on several Intel >> motherboards that have PCI Express that I've run FBSD on, >> the BSD kernel complains about no interrupt being available >> for the serial port. But the serial port works anyway. >> >> I'm surprised you didn't find this with Google, it's in >> there. Perhaps look through the mailing list archives? >> >> As far as I know Nvidia hasn't allowed Xorg to write drivers >> for their cards, all the nvidia drivers out there are >> binaries from Nvidia. This for me would cross that card >> off my list. >> >> In any case, this really isn't a FreeBSD issue, it's an Xorg >> issue and you should ask on those mailing lists. Others have >> had Nvidia troubles for other reasons and should be able to >> better advise you. > >Many thanks for your clarification Ted. I did post to >freebsd-x11 but the >list seems relatively low-traffic and unfortunately got no responses. I was meaning post to the xorg@lists.freedesktop.org list. Ted
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