From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sat Sep 5 01:03:06 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA019CB316 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 01:03:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dot.yet@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x232.google.com (mail-oi0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5B7D35A for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2015 01:03:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dot.yet@gmail.com) Received: by oixx17 with SMTP id x17so20846112oix.0 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:03:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=zN7fv+CnlKTQFz0ORspsvJeAlkhgyeSGRE2Sg9zDOa8=; b=o84ifoH88CM88HLo4wO/pgtGEdMqG4uLzEj561rDDIy9RnnkW7rKLLt0ai3HGLss/y s/LnNOoy/2jOKANM6Vv27ANCfARgAFs5wcFosk38ghkW4Pz70fnbWU6cxRrMZYd2pluS qlX6crn6OHeq7JfxEH7YoNMFy5GBi+F1AKQAn6lNgt0eqxyvlVmYOSO+BNd7dklaxY+c vz7aeQuRFqoJ9Hz2YudXrG9ksGJGB/CcgshsQiUoWufeC4VV8oQqRcgmKVT0/153ZXbQ vIcA1oOJX8VJJIlacwZ56Jz9CYFbHqWFCVAcBWQynir3o26p22FOoLqzCs+6ZZgCYCSd aNbQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.206.22 with SMTP id e22mr5599128oig.132.1441414984759; Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.99.146 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:03:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55E9D33E.80009@gwdg.de> References: <55E9B5AF.50106@rlwinm.de> <55E9D33E.80009@gwdg.de> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 21:03:04 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GPU suggestion: gtx 750ti From: Dot Yet To: Rainer Hurling Cc: Jan Bramkamp , FreeBSD stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 01:03:06 -0000 So, I went ahead an bought a much cheaper card :) GT 720 for CAD70! followed the instructions mentioned here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-setup-xorg-with-nvidias-driver.52311/, used the drives from x11/nvidia-driver binary package. Happy Camper!! Wonderful graphics! and 4k videos look amazing :) dual monitor setup, both monitors discovered automatically, I just had to fix their placement in xfce. Thanks everyone for their opinion and help. Enjoy the weekend! tjx. . On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Rainer Hurling wrote: > Am 04.09.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Dot Yet: > > Seems 950 is supported now though: > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us > > Yes, there is a binary driver for 950 at NVidia, but AFAIK it does not > exist as a port on FreeBSD until now. > > Because there a some new internal changes in the driver and its file and > directory structure, the port has to be adopted to these changes. O. > Hartmann makes a suggestion for a patch almost one month ago [1]. > > HTH, > Rainer > > [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202228 > > > > > thx. > > . > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dot Yet wrote: > > > >> makes sense. I am very likely to revert back to haswell when support for > >> it is there and move this card over to one of the other machines. > >> > >> so, based on what you said, for now 950 is not an appropriate choice? is > >> it correct? > >> > >> thx. > >> . > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jan Bramkamp wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 04/09/15 16:34, Dot Yet wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I currently run haswell based desktop and am planning to add a second > gpu > >>>> to get decent graphics functional. I am thinking about purchasing > nvidia > >>>> gtx 750ti. can anyone confirm if its supported by drivers and is > capable > >>>> of > >>>> hardware acceleration? if not, what current day gpu should i look > for? I > >>>> am > >>>> not a gamer, but I do like watching 1080p movies/trailers etc. > >>>> > >>>> Please let me know. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Yes a Nvidia GTX 750ti is supported by the closed source binary driver > >>> according to https://www.nvidia.com/download/index.aspx (enter your > data > >>> and you end up at > >>> https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90283/en-us). > >>> > >>> A GTX 750ti is a bit overpowered for light desktop and media usage but > >>> based on a dated microarchitecture and lacks hardware support for the > >>> upcoming h.265 video codec. > >>> > >>> Nvidia drops support for old hardware in their driver from time to time > >>> and newer chips have a lower idle power consumption for a given peak > >>> performance so you might want to look for a GPU with a newer > >>> microarchitecture. The GTX950 would be a good fit but the nvidia driver > >>> port is not yet up to version 352.41 which adds support for the GTX950. > >