Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:17 pm, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Brett Wildermoth wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, owner-freebsd-stable_at_freebsd.org wrote:
> >>On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> >>>Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth_at_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......
>
> I think this has come up before (multiple times...almost a FAQ-candidate
> IMO).
> AFAICR, the changes are not in CURRENT, yet, but there are plans to
> integrate them in the future.
>
> Can't you just run those AMD-boxes in i386-mode, for the time being?
>
> BTW: wouldn't it be good to note things like these in the
> "errata"-section in the handbook?
> The port itself is marked as "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386". But usually, by the
> time one reaches that stage, the hardware has already been bought ;-)
>
> Do all other Xorg-drivers work on AMD64?
>
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Rainer

The card is too new to be supported by the nv 2D driver supplied in Xorg. Any 
card supported by the standard Xorg under FreeBSD x86 is also supported under 
FreeBSD x86-64 with the same capabilities.

Brett

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