Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 14:43:51 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended PCI-E video card? Message-ID: <200604031443.53372.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1144071224.686.6.camel@localhost> References: <20060403062711.GA52962@sysadm.stc> <4430C91F.6070006@samsco.org> <1144071224.686.6.camel@localhost>
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On Monday 03 April 2006 09:33, Joel Dahl wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:05 -0600, Scott Long wrote: > > Igor Robul wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm planing to build AMD64 based workstation, and have one question: > > > > > > which PCI-Express video card works best with X.org on freebsd-amd64 in > > > x64 mode? > > > > > > AFAIK nVidia does not have binary drivers for FreeBSD on AMD64, so what > > > opensource driver works best for X.org+FreeBSD+AMD64? > > > > When I looked at this a couple of months ago, the answer was that 2D > > works just fine, but there simply isn't any support for this > > configuration for 3D acceleration. Maybe that has changed recently. > > True, however jhb is working on PAT (which AFAIK Nvidia needs if they're > going to produce a driver for FreeBSD/amd64) in perforce and this commit > message is quite interesting, especially the last sentence: > > http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=93413 I'm still waiting for feedback on the patch from Nvidia. Hopefully they will test the current PAT patch soon. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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