Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:31:44 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Express graphics reliability/functionality in 6.1? Message-ID: <4488DD90.5070206@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060609020815.GA342@lava.net> References: <20060609020815.GA342@lava.net>
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Clifton Royston wrote: > I'm soon to build myself a new AMD X2 workstation system on which I > plan to multiboot various operating systems including FreeBSD, a couple > Linux distros and probably Windows XP Pro, and probably also run > virtualization software (VMWare and/or Xen.) I'm hoping for it to last > me through a few years of occasional upgrades, which makes me dubious > about choosing an AGP motherboard. > > I can't find anything specific about PCI Express in the 6.1 release > notes. However, I have Googled up some reports of various PCI-E > graphic cards working badly in Xorg under FreeBSD and other open source > OSes. In general should PCI Express graphics cards work properly and > perform reasonably well for Xorg and OpenGL graphics under FreeBSD, if > I avoid the "touchier" nVidia cards, or do I need to stick with AGP for > reliability? I have a PCI-E nvidia card 6600 with a particular Intel board (whose numbers I don't remember right now) which used to be problematic, and generated quite a few messages on the internet to that effect. But it turned out to be a problem with the BIOS on the motherboard which was fixed when Intel came out with a BIOS upgrade. So what I am saying is that the problem might be motherboard specific rather than graphics card specific. Stephen
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