Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:18:55 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: rax-rax@yandex.ru, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Subject: Re: video card for amd64 Message-ID: <200610191018.55987.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <17717.10025.959024.108597@bhuda.mired.org> References: <45351E55.000003.14882@webmail11.yandex.ru> <17717.10025.959024.108597@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Tuesday 17 October 2006 14:55, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <45351E55.000003.14882@webmail11.yandex.ru>, Victor Ploshykhin <rax-rax@yandex.ru> typed: > > I have FreeBSD 6.1 on AMD64. Unfortunaly there are no nvidia drivers for video card in my computer. So I will put another one. > > Could you tell me what video cards are REALLY supported in this configuration. > > For what purpose? I used a pair of nvidia cards on my amd64 desktop > for months. I've since discovered that the driver I was using didn't > properly support either large LCDs or dual heads (though the latter > may have been a configuration problem on my part). I bought an ATI > card, and now have said large LCD as one of the two heads attached to > the card. > > ATI, unlike NVidia, supports open source OS's properly, by releasing > docs and/or driver source for their cards. Only for older cards, not any of their newer stuff. -- John Baldwin
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