Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:52:58 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> To: James Earl <james@icionline.ca> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox G550 Message-ID: <200411291952.59151.jkim@niksun.com> In-Reply-To: <1101860441.603.10.camel@localhost> References: <1101824272.647.8.camel@localhost> <200411291844.14522.jkim@niksun.com> <1101860441.603.10.camel@localhost>
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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 07:20 pm, James Earl wrote: > 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.dif > >f?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. If that worked, agp_amd64.c.rej is probably FreeBSD ID line and it's okay. > 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. Ah, I see. mga_hal_drv.o is closed source and only available for i386 AFAIK. Jung-uk Kim > > 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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