From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 17:45:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AB516A402 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:45:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E1613C46C for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id l2EHRF16020871 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:27:15 -0400 Received: from smtp-mclean.mitre.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B771BD7C for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:27:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imcfe2.MITRE.ORG (imcfe2.mitre.org [129.83.29.4]) by smtp-mclean.mitre.org (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l2EHRE2M020859; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:27:14 -0400 Received: from IMCSRV6.MITRE.ORG ([129.83.20.237]) by imcfe2.MITRE.ORG with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:27:14 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:27:04 -0400 Message-ID: <53B52415C756A84E8A169F0E3673A32921483A@IMCSRV6.MITRE.ORG> In-Reply-To: <45F81D68.2010400@gmail.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) Thread-Index: AcdmUySdGYf+MyMhSvOy9PLNPz+l9gACnz2A References: <200703132217.l2DMH0OD051784@ambrisko.com> <25810306.6391173834144834.JavaMail.blogger-tech@ehja28.prod.google.com><45F81AE8.5000105@cyberwang.net> <45F81D68.2010400@gmail.com> From: "Andresen, Jason R." To: "fred" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2007 17:27:14.0491 (UTC) FILETIME=[01B470B0:01C7665E] Cc: Subject: RE: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:45:10 -0000 On Behalf Of fred > >Sean Bryant a =E9crit : >> Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that=20 >> accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card=20 >and cannot=20 >> get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing=20 >> happens after that. It might be the fact that I have a PCI express=20 >> card. But the vesa driver is working just fine for me. >??? PCI-E GPU are known to work fine. > >Which GPU do you have ? May be one too old that nvidia >does not support anymore ? I don't think there are any PCIe boards that are too old to support. FWIW, I have a Geforce 8800 GTX on my dual boot box and the nVidia driver works mostly. It's still pretty buggy (although this is on 7-Current, so it's hard to tell if it's the driver's fault or FreeBSDs), but it's good enough for day to day stuff (just don't play too many movies or start up too many OpenGL apps, and don't try to return to the console). On the other hand, the latest nVidia drivers for this card are buggy in Windows too, so maybe it is their fault. =20