From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 04:21:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04030106566C for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail.irbisnet.ru (mail.irbisnet.ru [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:aa:203:baff:fe18:f4c1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C97A8FC1E for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:21:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail.irbisnet.ru (yuri@mail.irbisnet.ru [IPv6:::1]) by mail.irbisnet.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m254KwT2014310; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:20:58 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by mail.irbisnet.ru (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m254KwQE014309; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:20:58 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.irbisnet.ru: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:20:58 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov To: Isaac Mushinsky Message-ID: <20080305042058.GA14297@mail.irbisnet.ru> References: <200803042252.13008.itz@mushinsky.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200803042252.13008.itz@mushinsky.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:25:57 +0000 Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 platform newbie -- what video card for x11? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:21:01 -0000 On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:52:12PM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: > After using a FreeBSD/i386 for many years, I am getting new Intel x64 hardware > now (Core 2 Quad, Abit IP35-Pro, would like as much RAM as possible). I would > like to run amd64. > > Since nvidia drivers always worked for me, I ordered one of their later cards > (8500GT), only to find out now that nvidia drivers are not there for amd64. > > So my 2 questions are: > > 1) does the open nv driver work? I do not play games or really need 3D > acceleration, just want basic 2D and things like mplayer to work properly. xf86-video-nv works for me with 8600GT, but sad thing is that nv driver doesn't support XVideo extension on all 8xxx cards. Please check http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11586 for more details. > 2) should I return nvidia card and get something else? Is there a better > reasonably working card? > > Thanks. HTH, Yuri