From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 16:55:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46768106566C for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:55:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02ACF8FC24 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:55:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9EGt6hH073480; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n9EGt5Ar073477; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: jgrosch@es.net In-Reply-To: <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> Message-ID: References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:06 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics card recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:55:09 -0000 On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgrosch@es.net wrote: > nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia > card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google > search finds many posts on how to fix this but none of them seem to work. > I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working > with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. ATI also seems to have > a problem with mtrr under 7.2. I'm still trying to sort this out. I hope > 8.0 will address these problems. All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the "mtrr" problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA