From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 7 21:22:58 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 2136D16A417 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:22:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from fhw-relay07.plus.net (fhw-relay07.plus.net [212.159.14.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D92A813C459 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:22:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=kestrel.milibyte.co.uk) by fhw-relay07.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JNECt-0000UX-Qh; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:22:55 +0000 Received: by kestrel.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JNECs-0001A4-T0; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:22:55 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:22:53 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200802022112.28641.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200802022112.28641.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802072122.54629.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on kestrel.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Plusnet-Relay: 6a466a38ee450d43a033a986a0a84e5a Subject: Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64 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: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:22:58 -0000 On Saturday 02 February 2008, I wrote: > I'm contemplating building a system around an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU. I'm > not into games and overclocking so a relatively low end motherboard with > integrated graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many > of them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia > graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. Thanks to everybody who replied to my enquiry, your comments have helped to fill some gaps in my knowledge on this matter. It looks like the xorg driver should meet my 2D requirements quite well. I was under the impression that I would need to install the AMD64 version of FreeBSD for an Athlon 64 but I now understand that since I'll only have 1 or 2 GB of memory I might just as well use i386 in which case I'll have the choice of using either the xorg or Nvidia driver. -- Mike Clarke