From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 13 21:31:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9362116A41C; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:31:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sclements@linkline.com) Received: from smtp2.linkline.com (smtp2.linkline.com [64.30.215.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF1643D46; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:31:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sclements@linkline.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (host-66-59-225-129.lcinet.net [66.59.225.129]) by smtp2.linkline.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59808BB; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:31:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42D5883E.7090909@linkline.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:31:42 -0700 From: Samuel Clements User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Wildermoth References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:31:44 -0000 Brett Wildermoth wrote: > To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought > seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar I realize to some it may be splitting hairs, but do you mean 'PCI Express' instead of 'PCI-X'. One is 64bit/100 (or 133mhz) PCI commonly used for RAID and network controllers, the other is a redesign of the PCI architecture - and is commonly exposed as an interface for video cards. -Sam