Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:30:45 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: eculp@encontacto.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051530450.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070605133924.om35kjhiscg0o0o0@intranet.encontacto.net>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>: > >> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:40:34AM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: >>> Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>: >>> >>> > Diego Depaoli wrote: >>> >> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>: >>> >>>> In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run >>> >>>> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend >>> >>>> on a certain piece of software which is known not to run >>> >>>> correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. >>> >>> >>> >>> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko. >>> >> That's true. >>> >> Is there any news? >>> >> >>> > Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me.. >>> can't >>> > get nv to work under amd64 :(...). >>> > We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development >>> a >>> > bit more *sigh*.. >>> >>> Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread. >>> >>> As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with >>> nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to >>> AMD >>> in addition to past experience has always been good with them. I also >>> had >>> the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia which made the decision >>> make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw these, before rather that >>> after >>> the fact. >>> >>> I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 with >>> AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of PRE-buyers >>> remorse? ;) >> >> Nvidia cards work just fine - just not with the nvidia driver. I'm >> using xorg 7.2 with the nv driver just fine on an AMD64 laptop. >> >> -- WXS >> > > Wesley, you made my day. Thanks. To show my ignorance, I thought the nv > driver was synonymous with the nvidia driver. I use nv for all my desktops > with AMD but they are not AMD64 and they work great. > > Thanks a lot, > > ed nv will always work with nVidia chipsets (until the maintainer at nVidia stops supporting it :)..) because it's completely open sourced. As for the nvidia driver, like was stated earlier, it's close sourced, and only works on i386 now. -Garrett
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