From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 1 16:19:39 2007 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 8F91D16A41A for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:19:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D43913C46A for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:19:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so5744441pyb for ; Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:19:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=kIH2MW1dTdFxVZCvYx5TwxcZu64wto4QEkKPMREWxQ0=; b=xSWmTGZhONlCPl3S98lkfxN7o0IXP3mYP3HBMb8d1XZ503ktRr/K9oyB4h/yg4HcU8l0Ao/wso9ADJCQkLrNRJwu0vrcqWicWMNzSqlw3RzZ9IP+cAUngsHLetURsSgy3l3sGoXLXomdMB0SRAM9Lg2npwaWmC/vmt8mf+7w6Qk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=kbz9mzOwGtdwtbdXzTh2MGtE7p36ZENJfFkdFATC23PW7uGi1Q2E4FO/Z0IufMo/1wlHABktBqoDcmd6zBXLw1RM6dcKphupQjrc3Y69w8+IHkXQBD1+rAhAhnXs3RdVSUWRWe6S3SJGND9WvgJxl/bVTFAdExqgpzV6bUcahMI= Received: by 10.64.153.4 with SMTP id a4mr21051596qbe.1196525977004; Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:19:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.231.2 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:19:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:19:36 +0200 From: "David Naylor" Sender: naylor.b.david@gmail.com To: "Pieter de Goeje" In-Reply-To: <200712011326.39088.pieter@degoeje.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200712011326.39088.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e696341a85286ea4 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia 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, 01 Dec 2007 16:19:39 -0000 Thanks for the info. Also from what I can see PAE does not support USB. The reason why I am using i386 is because I'm not going to sacrifice my gaming :-) which means nvidia. Thanks David p.s. I'm volunteering to do any testing for an amd64 version of the nvidia driver... On 01/12/2007, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007, David Naylor wrote: > > I have googled, looked though the mailing archives and the FreeBSD > > Handbook but I have not found out how to build a PAE FreeBSD kernel > > with nVidia graphics drivers included. This is for an Asus P5N-E > > system with 4GB of RAM and SLI graphics cards. > PAE is not supported by the nvidia driver. I quote from pkg-message.in: > "Note that this driver does not support PAE-enabled kernels." > > - Pieter de Goeje > >