Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 21:06:04 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: question@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In search of a video card Message-ID: <20090514040604.GA1418@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <11167f520905132045j57fc8914n40894ceecbf33ee5@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> <11167f520905132045j57fc8914n40894ceecbf33ee5@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:45:17PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> wrote: > > > > I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce > > 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home > > machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into > > X. It just hangs. I've been poking around and, based on what I read, some > > FreeBSD developers and Nvidia have gotten into a finger pointing contest as > > to what is the problem. Its all very nice but doesn't help me much. > > I can shed some light on the amd64 binary nvidia driver issue > John Baldwin has implimented the features the Nvidia people need. > > http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.html#Device-mmap()-Extensions > > if you read the nvnews fourms Zander made refrence to working on a 64bit driver. > > > Sam Fourman Jr. Great! So there is hope for my Nvidia card. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 7.2 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | Berkeley, Ca. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFKC5isy8prLS1GYSERAlnmAJ9tJHzybHRYCHLl1R+ZkXQsFjJ6yQCeM6K4 P4qr0zf38ydQFL3JTX2KOwA= =Iw6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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