From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 14 04:10:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12A01065673 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 836508FC19; Thu, 14 May 2009 04:10:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sfourman@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so2056946qyk.3 for ; Wed, 13 May 2009 21:10:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wIy6bwN1+03+BQ9Ixb0wphBs1n3FkfXyZkpfxCPNxJk=; b=PbQoiXOjiU+HIhl43+c4xBqx3lmxjojlPdtI8MG+yEMHI0X3CjgGw8SeCkWXEOC9R1 GBY2lHTAwfxCtP5Y2xSV1nGfnFHPgoszDtGEv8g81Tl05CGXMwD7KnXiU0WIiRvIlvm4 ONdhlyRjuAytKNR4ix8odJAL2cRKOdwvDGWMQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=a8vcvtvJhmL4eeRe37M7uZ1vEGR/qdwgkSQpsFA/NgloEt1GswPWU9Z9z9WYUfBraM HThLhFwJFxSmXTlxQTHez1zsb8wTBd5Fyy9tl8ce29UkToxHZbeYd5/ZI7GW7vtIw67n 1UpuUwruLjau7s95HPjplTKqx/eGeXvZyz9JA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.110.5 with SMTP id l5mr1400778qcp.88.1242272717062; Wed, 13 May 2009 20:45:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> References: <20090514030634.GA1252@mooseriver.com> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 22:45:17 -0500 Message-ID: <11167f520905132045j57fc8914n40894ceecbf33ee5@mail.gmail.com> From: "Sam Fourman Jr." To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: question@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In search of a video card X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 04:10:17 -0000 On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Josef Grosch 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.