From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 1 04:51:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C983B16A417 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C56C13C447 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2007 04:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so4537742waf for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:51:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OyhUNItX5nttz9uUWIGpv8Hdu0zGqtgidA9cdNZzFjM=; b=r+guA8kM1GgQRQWNXUYdVh1P0GBXMVOIjZDA+Hk7ju03zB+gxUrBMcsg+BHN5DXEYhzoW4kw/AAko9apisBFHJp+fsq1f1O55fTo7VPXUqsK02Ek0dQNVgk9SK3X+4AAHM8NDUC/dYPI6sv0UcUl38SIfAakmsADxep9Tn/nh6w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pykIO2HcCKs163wXO8FUNT5unHRle+Ixt9nsDbG7unUzdbmnN1+0Gou9uehQgBUg4oBDDKPT+uESnUeUmBLE3jzpiMKG8+ANIb1M9vvlUieFs4QXPolmFGbbnHpMTHlgMz1hZO7S1JmVvypLyYbV3eYH+hNpGrvAZ1uMouzizlw= Received: by 10.115.14.1 with SMTP id r1mr3870200wai.1191214308979; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.74.5 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2fd864e0709302151s48adf33fwda3c908ae67b72ee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:51:48 -0500 From: Astrodog To: "Aryeh Friedman" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: various rants about 7-currnet on AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:51:49 -0000 First, i386 arches do not properly support 4GB of memory without PAE. The set of issues you will encounter without dealing with this first is somewhat unpredictable... though performance issues, broken hardware, etc is certainly possible. The ports issue is known. You might be interested in lookup up 32-bit compat on FreeBSD. The CPUTYPE is amd64 because at the time the instruction set was invented, and FreeBSD began supporting it, Intel had no plans to offer support for it, it was an AMD-only offering. Intel decided to support it, *after* the project did all of the fun work involved in supporting it, including naming everything amd64. AMD64 as an arch isn't always suitable for systems. Its load specific. In as far as nvidia.ko, and nv are concerned, I've run both of them without problems, on a wide range of hardware. You do need to make sure they're binding, instead of vesa, though. (Simply replace "vesa" with "nv" or "nvidia" in your xorg.conf)