From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 11 14:24:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A3916A41F for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:24:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@MHoerich.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5427343D46 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:24:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@MHoerich.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Sep 2005 14:24:08 -0000 Received: from p548B5F33.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO localhost) [84.139.95.51] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 11 Sep 2005 16:24:08 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5114400 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:24:08 +0200 From: Mario Hoerich To: Gregory Nou Message-ID: <20050911142155.GA3715@Pandora.MHoerich.de> References: <20050911062117.23335.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com> <20050911075132.GR21356@localhost.localdomain> <4323FAAD.9010904@altern.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4323FAAD.9010904@altern.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, rhod_herreria@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Thanks a lot!!! 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: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:24:22 -0000 # Gregory Nou: [ Playing with FBSD ] > I ran Neverwinter Nights, Enemy Territory and UT2004 with great success. There are two issues with FreeBSD here (I've found out the hard way): 1) There is no nVidia-driver for amd64 and --unless nVidia changes their mind-- there won't ever be one. 2) The i386-nVidia-driver (tested 6113, 7667, 7676) seems to have a major problem with Athlon64 on socket 939. Just google for | NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel | NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. Apparently, the driver is unable to use either NVAgp or native AGP. You'll still be able to use twin-screens and hardware accelleration, albeit at a very limited transfer bandwidth to the GPU. Some people seem lucky enough and are still able to play, but I know that _for me_ UT2004 runs *way* too slow since updating CPU+Mainboard. (Ran perfectly fine before). In short: if your PCs have a combination of nVidia-GPU and Athlon64/939-CPU, FreeBSD is not a good choice atm. :( HTH Mario