From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 18:54:42 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 209F8106566B for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:54:42 +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 B40428FC1E for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9EIsYgV073966; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:54:34 -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 n9EIsYJ8073963; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:54:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:54:34 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: cpghost In-Reply-To: <20091014183809.GA1519@phenom.cordula.ws> Message-ID: References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> <20091014183809.GA1519@phenom.cordula.ws> 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 12:54:34 -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 18:54:42 -0000 On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: > 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. I do that all the time without noticeable problems, but then this particular card is an RV530 or RV560 chipset which has been supported for quite a while. Most or all of the Radeon HD cards are R600 or R700 chipsets, and that's still work in process. > 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. :-( Plain radeon driver from xf86-video-ati works best here, although I haven't tried radeonhd for a while. > 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). Agreed. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA