Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

On 14 Jul 2005, at 11:54, Vlad Vasiliu wrote:

> 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_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)
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
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>
> What about the nvidia cards on agp? does that need some unavailable  
> stuff too?
>

Nvidia cards on agp work well with i386.