From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 18:18:12 2008 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 1E0AE1065686 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:18:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rumuru@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f21.google.com (mail-gx0-f21.google.com [209.85.217.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CE78FC14 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 18:18:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rumuru@gmail.com) Received: by gxk14 with SMTP id 14so515909gxk.19 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:18:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=Q9lBOcdaQ5sL9hR/gUYSvABN1WHnXhS2TuHeH3gfuQ0=; b=dWXwZyvtKAxrHq3C16wjLoGsbE9sCRR7y4WPCPb7JwN418cy/+RzWEwSN/V5XkE/ip CVNfVqBSn3B/d1FmqlCUVBRC/Z2Vhq3CyAqmpvxghNwnR0JLTF3BwCnmevc80611BpxZ E4Z0mWa//fWasa+gUKXAS7vx9M2d9PKDnVXBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=IubPb7exB77IBmvkMgDWqRUv4tAhwZ2tsC2U6vLKVrWTyHKN2D1wojN93IV4gUn/sO zGxM5uBXNzF2O/dWrLRGt9QtsT2lU1EzpfGY/QimelN/9RtmP+81AKKeOFT4EZ2aGqjJ zkUOqrVz7XQdfO5+1B8sx7XRtnhdsDBtSngg8= Received: by 10.142.214.5 with SMTP id m5mr3484703wfg.257.1222885090479; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.1.20 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:18:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:18:10 -0400 From: "Mungyung Ryu" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC 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, 01 Oct 2008 18:18:12 -0000 Hi BSD folks! I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver for Linux or FreeBSD! So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce. I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be enough, but it should support 1920x1200 resolution. I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64. Anybody can recommend? Second, I want to use zero-copy facility of FreeBSD. As far as I know, the hardware (NIC) support (Scatter-Gather DMA) is needed for that as well as using sendfile() api. Among the NIC products which has SGDMA function in the market, which one is the most well supported by FreeBSD 7R - amd64? I got a technical support from Intel, and they said there is no Intel NIC which supports SGDMA. That is so surprising.. isn't it? The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD. Thanks. -- ****************************************************************************** Mungyung Ryu Ph.D. Student. College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta ******************************************************************************