Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:17:43 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card Message-ID: <42D62DB7.5040301@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <200507140743.11021.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> <20050713102642.k4svdf8s08ososkk@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <200507131418.01991.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200507140743.11021.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>
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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...... > > > I think this has come up before (multiple times...almost a FAQ-candidate IMO). AFAICR, the changes are not in CURRENT, yet, but there are plans to integrate them in the future. Can't you just run those AMD-boxes in i386-mode, for the time being? BTW: wouldn't it be good to note things like these in the "errata"-section in the handbook? The port itself is marked as "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386". But usually, by the time one reaches that stage, the hardware has already been bought ;-) Do all other Xorg-drivers work on AMD64? cheers, Rainer
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