From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 12:47:49 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 E91A116A427 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:47:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DB243D83 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:47:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (nieser.net [194.109.160.131]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAMClath030680 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:47:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from hans@nieser.net) Message-ID: <4383136B.9020409@nieser.net> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:47:39 +0100 From: Hans Nieser User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express? 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: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:47:50 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > This is correct. The various driver authors who have been > affected by the PCI Express issue have implemented logic in > their probe code that activates the devices on pci express busses, > so for most devices it's a non-issue. But this is kludgy and > there's been discussion in the core as to try to get someone > to write a PCI Express driver that would talk to the bus > and would handle the devices the way the buss is intended. > > You still get weirdness though - for example on several Intel > motherboards that have PCI Express that I've run FBSD on, > the BSD kernel complains about no interrupt being available > for the serial port. But the serial port works anyway. > > I'm surprised you didn't find this with Google, it's in > there. Perhaps look through the mailing list archives? > > As far as I know Nvidia hasn't allowed Xorg to write drivers > for their cards, all the nvidia drivers out there are > binaries from Nvidia. This for me would cross that card > off my list. > > In any case, this really isn't a FreeBSD issue, it's an Xorg > issue and you should ask on those mailing lists. Others have > had Nvidia troubles for other reasons and should be able to > better advise you. Many thanks for your clarification Ted. I did post to freebsd-x11 but the list seems relatively low-traffic and unfortunately got no responses. Through google the closest I got to a possible answer was a post about PCI Express support as a kind of hack-job (on freebsd-arch, I think) but it didn't really provide a definite answer to me about wether or not my card was in fact limited by FreeBSD/nvidia's (lacking) PCI-Express support.