Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 07:05:58 -0500 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: x11/nvidia-driver-340 and OpenCL Message-ID: <201708241205.v7OC5wrR016229@sdf.org>
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My current system has a pair of 10-year-old Radeon HD 3870x2 cards
interconnected by a Crossfire cable. Those cards support OpenGL 4, but
do not support OpenCL, unfortunately. My previous computer, now sitting
unused in a corner, has an EVGA GeForce 210 card in it that supports only
OpenGL 3.1, according to the box it came in, but does support OpenCL,
though it doesn't say up to which version of OpenCL. The modern
x11/nvidia-driver does not support this older card, but
x11/nvidia-driver-340 does support it. I could pull one of the Radeon
cards, disconnecting the unsupported-by-X.org Crossfire cable, and
replace the card with the EVGA card if the older driver it requires
supports OpenCL on it. Can anyone tell me whether it does? If so, I
would like to leave the monitor connected to the remaining Radeon card
and use the Nvidia-based EVGA card just for OpenCL. I would rather not
spend money on a newer and more powerful card from either company just
to familiarize myself with OpenCL, and the EVGA ought to be good enough
for that purpose if the driver will support it.
Thanks in advance for any information on this!
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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