Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:16:34 +0530 From: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for nVidia GeForce 7025/7050PV/nForce 630a graphics Message-ID: <4A1D6E6A.8060702@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1243433247.2926.2277.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <4A1D348F.8090504@gmail.com> <1243433247.2926.2277.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 18:09 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am thinking of going in for an AMD solution for my new home PC. >> >> Does FreeBSD work easily with Asus M2N68-AM (nvidia GeForce 7025/nForce >> 630a graphics as per Asus; nvidia GeForce 7050PV/nForce 630a graphics as >> per CNET/other sites). I would probably be using this along with Athlon >> Dual-Core 5200+ >> >> FreeBSD-7.1's drm directory in src does NOT seem to have a listing for >> GeForce 7025/GeForce 7050/nForce 630a. And xorgconfigurator just lists >> one (generic) driver nv for nvidia. So would DRI work ? > > There are three possible drivers, nv (kindof old and crusty), nouveau > (in current ports), and the binary blob from Nvidia (currently i386 > only). For nv, there is no drm. For nouveau, I have patches for drm > support that I may go ahead and commit to -CURRENT over the next couple > of days. The current patch also applies to -STABLE. With the patch you > should get accelerated EXA and Xv, but not 3d yet. I have gotten the 3d > driver to sort of work, but generally it isn't in a user ready state (on > linux either). > > The binary blob does whatever it does and I'll let others give you > details on that. > > robert. > >> I ask this because I currently have an i810-based motherboard for which >> there is no DRI support in FreeBSD and I need to make sure I don't end >> up without DRI again. > Hello Roland, Thanks for your reply. One final question. > With the patch you should get accelerated EXA and Xv, but not 3d yet. I am only interested in playing DVD's, not games. Are EXA and Xv sufficient for that ? If 3d is required too, then I have to dump this idea altogether and try something else. -- Regards Manish Jain invalid.pointer@gmail.com +91-96500-10329 Laast year I kudn't spell Software Engineer. Now I are won.
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