Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 07:07 pm, owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 22:43, 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......
>
> 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.
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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)

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