-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-11-17 18:53, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman_at_gmail.com> > wrote: >> M. Warner Losh wrote: >>> You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. >> All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing >> this has blown up.... also since I use a nvidia card it is almost >> pointless unless I can run the nvidia kernel module. > > That's odd. > > The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from > the FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm. Which > methods have you tried? With 4GB and a E6850 (P35/IHC9(R)) almost all the pci devices I had where reconized *EXCEPT* any nvdidia card under i386 this was instantly "fixed" as soon I switched to amd64. Even though I don't feel like rehashing all the stuff that I had to go through to get some stuff working (do a search for threads started by me) suffice it to say that when I first got the box 90% of the devices that the machine came with either where not functional and/or had driver issues. After working with the people on -current (and learning a fair amount about the guts of FreeBSD) there are only 3 issues left: 1. The NIC slowly dies (see "re(4) slowly dies") 2. Problems reading/writting from dvd/cd (see the many threads on ihc9 issues on -current [note to Jeremy the Phillips just arrived but I am in the process of doing a portupgrade -afk so will test it tommorow]) 3. The issues with nvidia kernel module on amd64 (alternativelly does anyone know how hard it would be to get bettern 1024x768 with nv?) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHP7UVJ9+1V27SttsRAjlPAJ4wqFDaow0JvT23Copd3M27x5exXACdGT1+ VYEXsDwG7uUYUtuyqqQwK2M= =8Tbq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Sun Nov 18 2007 - 02:44:38 UTC
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