From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 18:38:14 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 3751A106566B for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:38:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFE18FC1B for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from phenom.cordula.ws (phenom [192.168.254.60]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D3B37409; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:38:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:38:09 +0200 From: cpghost To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20091014183809.GA1519@phenom.cordula.ws> References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 18:38:14 -0000 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > 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. Try starting X with DRI, then quit X, and restart X again. If you don't have DRI anymore, chances are you've hit the ominous MTRR problem. At least, that's what I think it is, from what I've gathered from this list. I seem to have this problem with an ATI HD 3200, using the radeonhd driver under RELENG_7. It's pretty annoying, that if X crashes (or you have to stop it for some reason), you only get DRI support again after rebooting. :-( Having said this, IMHO ATI will probably be better supported in the long run on FreeBSD, because they have released the specs of rather recent chipsets, while nVidia has not (AFAIK). > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/