From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 00:20:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6C916A4D2 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:20:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net (defout.telus.net [199.185.220.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E99B43D31 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:20:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@icionline.ca) Received: from d137-186-147-63.abhsia.telus.net ([137.186.147.63]) by priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.netESMTP <20041130002005.ILMJ25737.priv-edtnes46.telusplanet.net@d137-186-147-63.abhsia.telus.net>; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:20:05 -0700 From: James Earl To: Jung-uk Kim In-Reply-To: <200411291844.14522.jkim@niksun.com> References: <1101824272.647.8.camel@localhost> <200411291844.14522.jkim@niksun.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:20:41 -0700 Message-Id: <1101860441.603.10.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox G550 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:20:11 -0000 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