From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 17:05:55 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 70BC1106566B for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:05:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jgrosch@es.net) Received: from mailgw.es.net (mail1.es.net [IPv6:2001:400:201:1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B768FC16 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www-west2.es.net (www-west2.es.net [198.128.3.67]) by mailgw.es.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9EH5sZX028890; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:54 -0700 Received: by www-west2.es.net (Postfix, from userid 48) id 3812EA68016; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT) X-Squirrel-UserHash: GggBGx4CGw== X-Squirrel-FromHash: RF1FTAsCFkY= Message-ID: <42588.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255539954.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT) From: jgrosch@es.net To: "Warren Block" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2009-10-14_09:2009-09-29, 2009-10-14, 2009-10-14 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-0910140122 X-Regulatory-Partner: 1 Cc: jgrosch@es.net, 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 17:05:55 -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 > I am seeing mtrr error using a Diamond Radeon HD4670 on FreeBSD 7.2 Josef