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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:20:58 +0300
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        Isaac Mushinsky <itz@mushinsky.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64 platform newbie -- what video card for x11?
Message-ID:  <20080305042058.GA14297@mail.irbisnet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200803042252.13008.itz@mushinsky.net>
References:  <200803042252.13008.itz@mushinsky.net>

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:52:12PM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote:
> After using a FreeBSD/i386 for many years, I am getting new Intel x64 hardware 
> now (Core 2 Quad, Abit IP35-Pro, would like as much RAM as possible). I would 
> like to run amd64.
> 
> Since nvidia drivers always worked for me, I ordered one of their later cards 
> (8500GT), only to find out now that nvidia drivers are not there for amd64.
> 
> So my 2 questions are: 
> 
> 1) does the open nv driver work? I do not play games or really need 3D 
> acceleration, just want basic 2D and things like mplayer to work properly.

xf86-video-nv works for me with 8600GT, but sad thing is that nv driver
doesn't support XVideo extension on all 8xxx cards. Please check
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11586 for more details.

> 2) should I return nvidia card and get something else? Is there a better 
> reasonably working card?
> 
> Thanks.

HTH,
Yuri



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