Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:32:02 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: tomdean@speakeasy.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 Message-ID: <4EE5BC02.7030007@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <1323667359.2790.10.camel@asus> References: <1323667359.2790.10.camel@asus>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1039C50B13910A3075E17661 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/12/11 06:22, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > ASUS P9X79 Motherboard, Intel i7-3930K, Diamond Radeon HD 6870 Vide, > ASUS VS228 Monitor. >=20 > I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 > supports fully. Nothing, so far. >=20 > If you recall, I had to use the Vesa driver with the existing card > because KMS is not implemented. And, it seems not likely in the near > future. >=20 > My monitor reports several modes that are not supported with the Vesa > driver. The ones I am interested in are "1920x1080"x0.0, which I do no= t > understand and "1920x1080"x60.0. >=20 > I want a 1920x1080 display. >=20 > I need a video card that will support my monitor but not require KMS. > Any suggestions? >=20 > tomdean FreeBSD has fallen far behind the actual development of opensource drivers and techniques due to the lack of KMS and on the other hand the X11 developer seems to have forgotten that they have been called "open" in the golden years of UNIX. But now they have a narrowed down view that only focuses on Linux and its rapid, crappy development. AMD isn't a good choice anymore for graphics cards. I have used a lot of HD48XX and HD46XX and HD 47XX cards since two years now with the open source driver on FreeBSD 8 through 10. You'll be able to display all resolutions, but ending an X session will wind up the box frozen. This issue is with all cards we have from AMD as mentioned in the lab. From HD5000 on, it seems to exist no support for the GPU on opensource drivers. It is insane to recommend buying a legacy graphics card apart from HD5000 or HD6000. My recommendation would be to try nVidia. I started to equipt all FreeBSD boxes in our lab with GTX560Ti or GTX570. The nVidia native FreeBSD 64Bit driver is pretty stable and works fine. But for GPGPU purposes you need to have Linux, if you want to use that. We use dual boot options for that and feel not very lucky. At the end, a native 64Bit driver fully supported by nVidia is maybe a foundation for mor in the future in terms of broader support of all facilities on and of the GPU to be used and therefore I recommend buying an nVidia board. Regards, Oliver --------------enig1039C50B13910A3075E17661 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO5bwIAAoJEOgBcD7A/5N872kIAJ6HUC8uM/FCBvV5eGm5G6gk F5c2LA/NNq+YB4yhHUHsN6+QNjQrUBML5dw5Ld8GTfW0urkLM2pmSc5KqutmM1SA 1I67hu5FF4luD1bG6+M5040sprQvXMvdrw1nNMGrECgG6y91yo+90jTSv6wf3FBx CGoYLmX5aqR4r0mcFSqz2JtieBWacE8grMSm1daTsLzFQVMVZjvFZT2oGiCFPnNk IFRdTSQCJFI+bOK2skJDTjT0jHoTJf575vslUNB58vIVwr56do44kLsIjVeuY2MM 2IGgsfz7Uja03NtODkFjqyvh7elBsxrIr97WTK41jVkttGNtVCo6WEsCeSKbpE4= =Nkjz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1039C50B13910A3075E17661--
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