Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:17:19 -0400 From: "Toll, Eric" <etoll@vipstructures.com> To: "Damian Gerow" <dgerow@afflictions.org>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Hello 64 World - My proposed 3Ware system Message-ID: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A944E4D2A@VIP10-WIN2K>
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=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Damian Gerow > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:39 PM > To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Hello 64 World - My proposed 3Ware system >=20 > Thus spake Toll, Eric (etoll@vipstructures.com) [05/05/05 12:58]: > : To me X Windows is sooo sexy. I *love* the GL=20 > screensaveers, I also like to > : watch my logs in realtime. (e.g. tail -F /var/log/maillog =20 > ...)I'll be running > : 1280x1024x32 color with the Nvidia accelerated driver via a=20 > 19' NEC CRT. Even > : now the OpenGL screen savers only use 3%-10% of my CPU.=20 > Have you ever seen > : "Endgame" run at 45fps? In best GL mode. I love X11 (or is=20 > it X.org now) DNS & > : WWW logs I like watch on screen realtime. So to me having=20 > a server motherboard > : with an AGP port is very important. > :=20 > : Will I be able to do this [the above] with AMD-64 FreeBSD? >=20 > Nope. The nVidia accelerated driver doesn't support AMD64=20 > yet. There's been murmurings of a driver in development, but=20 > I've not heard from them yet (three e-mails to their support=20 > team and counting). You can check the archives of this list=20 > for details. >=20 > That being said, the nv driver still works great, even though=20 > it doesn't have hardware 3D support. It's not much for=20 > games, but it can still to > 1600x1200x32 without much trouble. Well I got all of the harware put together now. It's nice, It's super = quiet with plenty of air flow. =20 I disabled the Sil SATA controllers on the MB... I installed my memory in 128Bit mode using banks 2 and 3, I'm not sure = what the difference is really, just that 128Bit mode sounded better than 64 Mode. = Anyone have a benchmark that I can compare to? Ubench? I am now downloading the AMD-64 FreeBSD 5.4 discone-iso, although it's = not linked to from the Download FreeBSD links. Is there *any* video card chipset that will run in hardware (X11) = accelerated mode on FreeBSD-AMD 64? TIA Eric
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