From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 15:43:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD8FE16A46C for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9955F13C48D for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF807B46D63; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:43:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22785-09; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:43:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from fserv.hub.org (blk-89-241-126.eastlink.ca [24.89.241.126]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716A2B46D61; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:43:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [192.168.1.3]) by fserv.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7718D13D; Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:43:16 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:43:16 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Arne WXrner , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-ID: <40D707389F9B4C9027B72D44@fserv.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <729466.7225.qm@web30311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <729466.7225.qm@web30311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: Going multi-headed with nvidia 7900GS card and 6-STABLE/amd64 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 15:43:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Sunday, July 22, 2007 00:50:39 -0700 Arne WXrner wrote: > Hi Marc! > > You should try the ports nvidia-driver and nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings > (pkg_add -r )... This is the dilemna ... the new computer is 64bit, and nvidia doesn't support FreeBSD/64bit due to a myriad of problems with FreeBSD :( Apparently there is a group on the FreeBSD side trying to address this, but the nVidia side doesn't seem to hold much hope in it getting in in time for 7.x, so 6.x is a ways out yet :( For those not aware, but interested, apparently this is 'the list' from their side (relatively old): And this is the list on our side: - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGo3sU4QvfyHIvDvMRAj5kAKCo0b4tHoDP+OEK07xL5cdTw1LuxQCdHpj/ D7o47iFBAsfDUcZ3+lvptJ4= =o5kh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----