From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 06:18:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B7C7106564A for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:18:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B188FC14 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:18:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg20 with SMTP id g20so4800692ghb.13 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.148.235 with SMTP id v71mr24742956yhj.6.1323669397697; Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:56:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from bhuda.mired.org (173-164-244-209-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [173.164.244.209]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d11sm42285035anc.4.2011.12.11.21.56.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:56:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:56:31 -0800 From: Mike Meyer To: tomdean@speakeasy.org Message-ID: <20111211215631.27d6ac90@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <1323667359.2790.10.camel@asus> References: <1323667359.2790.10.camel@asus> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:18:51 -0000 On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:22:39 -0800 "Thomas D. Dean" wrote: > ASUS P9X79 Motherboard, Intel i7-3930K, Diamond Radeon HD 6870 Vide, > ASUS VS228 Monitor. > > I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 > supports fully. Nothing, so far. [...] > I need a video card that will support my monitor but not require KMS. > Any suggestions? These are two different requirements. A "fully supported video card" would mean that you can access all the features of the video chip set. On 64bit FreeBSD, that pretty much lets out NVidia and ATI - neither release full docs or 64bit proprietary drivers for FreeBSD (though NVidia has been working on theirs). You'll need to try some other manufacturers chip sets. On the other hand, to "support my monitor" should take nothing more than driving your display at maximum resolution. The open source drivers for either NVidia or ATI should do that. Of course, you probably won't be able to access all video acceleration features of the chip set. Since this is what I'm looking for, I tend to buy whatever obsolete ATI or NVidia card is available from Amazon for cheap. That generally works pretty well for me. http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org