Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:07:50 +0100 From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> Cc: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card Message-ID: <200507141007.51665.dfr@nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200507140743.11021.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> <200507131418.01991.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200507140743.11021.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 22:43, Brett Wildermoth wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>: > > > > To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > > > > > > > > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I > > > > have just bought seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With > > > > 5.4 I can get everything bar the network and X to work, with > > > > 6.0 I can get the network to work also. However no matter what > > > > I do I can't get X to work. > > > > > > > > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. > > > > They make one for > > > > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. > > > > > > > > Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some > > > > people already have..... > > > > > > > > Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS...... > > > > > > Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. > > > Just post that > > > you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll > > > reconsider. > > > > Not true. FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for > > an amd64 driver to be feasible. > > Like what???? what are these features? and if they are really > important why aren't they on the cards to be included into > FreeBSD...... There are a few missing VM features that any high-performance graphics card driver would require for decent performance with PCI Express. John is working on adding those features - have patience.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200507141007.51665.dfr>