Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:20:41 -0700 From: James Earl <james@icionline.ca> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox G550 Message-ID: <1101860441.603.10.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200411291844.14522.jkim@niksun.com> References: <1101824272.647.8.camel@localhost> <200411291844.14522.jkim@niksun.com>
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On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:44 -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 09:17 am, James Earl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just recently setup an Athlon 64 system. I'm using an Asus A8V > > Deluxe (rev 2.0) motherboard, and a Matrox G550 video card. I got > > the video card working under FreeBSD i386, but I'm having issues > > under FreeBSD amd64. > > > > I read a previous post that makes me believe the drivers won't work > > on an amd64 system. However, one additional difference I noticed > > between booting up FreeBSD amd64 vs. FreeBSD i386, is that my agp > > device doesn't show up under FreeBSD amd64 (even after adding > > 'device agp' under FreeBSD amd64 kernel). > > I don't know about G550 but agp driver doesn't really matter if you > don't want DRI, i. e., 3D acceleration. > > > Does agp work under FreeBSD amd64? > > Can you try the following patch? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/agp_amd64.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3 Thanks! That patch worked. A .rej file was created... I'm not sure if that's important or not? I can provide the contents if you need them. DRI isn't extremely important to me. Getting a working mga_hal_drv.o is much more important however... otherwise I can't use the DVI output on the graphics card. I realize now, that's not really a FreeBSD amd64 problem though. > > Jung-uk Kim > > > If the Matrox drivers are architecture dependent, is it possible to > > compile a driver using the driver source Matrox provides? > > > > James
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