Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:48:57 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Barry Hawkins <ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an nVidia-based PowerBook G4 17" 1GHz Message-ID: <3FD956C9.1040002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <46789A62-2C14-11D8-890E-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com> References: <46789A62-2C14-11D8-890E-000A95A0485E@allthingscomputed.com>
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Hi Barry, > I will list the items about this particular PowerBook model that are > problematic for Debian, or more specifically, the Ben H. Linux kernel, > and if anyone sees something that shouts "waste of time", please let me > know. Ben H is a pretty sharp guy, I doubt very much that we'd have solved problems that he hasn't. > The Problem Issues with a 1GHz 17" PowerBook G4 > -The 100MHz bus > -The 1MB L3 cache Not sure why these would be a problem: perhaps some tricky timing issues. > -The nVidia GeForce Go 440 card > -The Airport Extreme wireless card (Broadcom chipset) > -The USB software modem No go for any of these, except as mentioned by Peter Hessler that XFree will support the NVidia card soon. But, FreeBSD/PPC doesn't have XFree yet, hopefully soon. > Thanks in advance for your time. I noticed that there was a binary > FreeBSD driver on nVidia's website for my particular card. That shocked > me. Is there some reason that nVidia would come up with a FreeBSD > binary and not a Linux one? The FreeBSD/i386 Nvidia driver is relatively recent: there's no PPC one. A Linux/i386 driver has been available from Nvidia for a long time. later, Peter.
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