From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 01:00:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7215116A401 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 01:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7F413C45D for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 01:00:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1637688wra for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:00:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; 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; b=s6qGDZ0sr8ijSybJsvwzJeh14T/cVc+S/SCaqAbwxXLURsb4Bu6IozZQ7h04NER+s98NP87GwXIpqbonZBR5Wu7dGFx3KeOPaymWCfHqYlYAgeyP4iqC6yPoeVKu591IuppjGLbG8HQW7kOXZi4NrUSnBrKCX32xneNT1totM78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; 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=Wf/9a68P2aLL8gSpG/GJ3I3MANLwJLVKhtD3Y52TT5YjD83mLEhlWanbA8DmrqNAThzzAYqujlj045zCJPo57xsny+jjI4KsHkG71d4jNlHVmcYygQVc1wK4s/FRTdO9P/9HC59zxphMLYkENMdY+B/IwIhqyddB6yTUybdF4Ng= Received: by 10.115.91.2 with SMTP id t2mr2181771wal.1177979696778; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.194.5 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 04:34:56 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "David Kalliecharan" In-Reply-To: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: e262da8350b0a88b Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 01:00:21 -0000 On 5/1/07, David Kalliecharan wrote: > Hello everyone! > I seem to run into a snag, I am going to buy a laptop for school work as I > my Laptop currently has become useless as I need to use Matlab/octave for > developing and opengl is a requirement for 3d mapping for creating visuals > (I would like to have Opengl to take advantage of this), the Ati driver does > not work, in a previous e-mail I found out that my chipset was no longer > supported by Ati (xpress 200m) > > The new laptop will have an Nvida Graphics cards (geforce go 6150 not much > better in specs but will do the job I need) The problem is that all of the > laptops that at this time are supporting Nvidia in my area all seem to be > AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual cores and AMD Turion 64 mobile. > > The question is does FreeBSD have any problems with the install on Dual core > using the i386 install disk? If not what about setting the make.conf file > for compiling Applications? I am used to using gentoo linux to do things and > am having a hard time finding this information, I know its similar but I > want to make sure its up and running properly, also Does anyone know how the > Geforce Go 6150 runs using the laest 1.0-9xxx series driver in the ports > tree?. So if anyone can point me in the right direction of installing > FreeBSD within the next few days on a Dual Core (if there any snags or not > using FreeBSD-6.2 stable) I would greatly appreciate it! Cutting-edge hardware may require current or at least stable branches of FreeBSD. Lots of people use 7.x on Turion 64 X2 laptops without any problems.