Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:45:17 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Cc: question@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In search of a video card Message-ID: <11167f520905132045j57fc8914n40894ceecbf33ee5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com>
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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.
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