Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:54:02 +0200 From: Vlad Vasiliu <vasiliuvlad@spymac.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card Message-ID: <200507141254.13401.vasiliuvlad@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <155B452C-1BEE-4857-B3E0-256BDDBE5FF0@nlsystems.com> References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> <200507142006.54726.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> <155B452C-1BEE-4857-B3E0-256BDDBE5FF0@nlsystems.com>
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--nextPart3250945.i3qQhVQJdN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:44, Doug Rabson wrote: > On 14 Jul 2005, at 11:06, Brett Wildermoth wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:07 pm, owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org wrote: > >> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 22:43, Brett Wildermoth wrote: > >>> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > >>> > >>> wrote: > >>>> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote: > >>>>> Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>: > >>>>>> To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I > >>>>>> have just bought seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With > >>>>>> 5.4 I can get everything bar the network and X to work, with > >>>>>> 6.0 I can get the network to work also. However no matter what > >>>>>> I do I can't get X to work. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. > >>>>>> They make one for > >>>>>> Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some > >>>>>> people already have..... > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS...... > >>>>> > >>>>> Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. > >>>>> Just post that > >>>>> you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll > >>>>> reconsider. > >>>> > >>>> Not true. FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for > >>>> an amd64 driver to be feasible. > >>> > >>> Like what???? what are these features? and if they are really > >>> important why aren't they on the cards to be included into > >>> FreeBSD...... > >> > >> There are a few missing VM features that any high-performance > >> graphics > >> card driver would require for decent performance with PCI Express. > >> John > >> is working on adding those features - have patience. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current- > >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I guess these feature are provided in FreeBSD x86, as a NVIDIA > > graphics driver > > is available for FreeBSD x86. Is FreeBSD x86-64 VM subsystem > > different to > > FreeBSD x86. Is the VM subsystem that low-level????? > > > > (Pardon my ignorance, have quite got around to reading the FreeBSD > > kernel book > > the publisher comped me yet) > > Actually I think that the feature we are talking about (PAT) is > relevant to both amd64 and i386. Proper support for PAT is required > for decent PCI Express performance, as I understand it. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" What about the nvidia cards on agp? does that need some unavailable stuff too? --nextPart3250945.i3qQhVQJdN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iQIVAwUAQtZEVXiG7l5aeBL+AQL/NQ/+JOYqui/ezCph1WYegPi9RnoUdaJEDbI9 WGG2dZs86v3DuH0kOmjS5Wt5CRMQX7R0uhlyhSoxApC26BSNEINVdLqDTy4H1gDO EgTweIjwCqXjZuHd/vmzJJveLCZh8QMVZxSoncG7nqX3nsT05TqEdKsjH574kucY avPiZZ2Yu6tvRF8ueEIQviI0NzQkHnInF87OELu8OXF/kjYfsLcG+Hv0TUddgdYm gln3YHYUcKU6v+iJcqueS0t2nVGkDQrYyEWjRwMLqbSRWnBSXbyK/B/T2uleNEZG g3aIpaEHI6/vG5letVwsEhLScSwXdltqBrCOw3nYgBh4s+T8kIMxe+JBCdbXdLKl l5llZ19kMLFNTeCA220r7tze/5XIqiALHYid84B9tX4PgObGCKKu/L7ypfe1h4wV Nr5IxTOFk6ViQWplDrcZYsMuHo2mbq6+rHYCxYLfb2FBJqL59kYOi6qaRuGqu2x4 cg5dflZh5smqZMKyJIvGvXNufexcaFSGQUz7MKWxVxz4LI97vRfHHZKeGcQyv97k bS8lemO8ZiSvJcRlGUOUXiR6FbAUifzaafhk8fheMMF0QCme4/WibbRRMvhl6JTf Wzr0UJ3JAjeDyNPHIbcUlrI0Rr6daOvi3KGmj4J7lH6wpRZSJl1EEwz3+/KBsGVA uq4JfjBobAQ= =vhP8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3250945.i3qQhVQJdN--
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