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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:44:14 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com>
To:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Matrox G550
Message-ID:  <200411291844.14522.jkim@niksun.com>
In-Reply-To: <1101824272.647.8.camel@localhost>
References:  <1101824272.647.8.camel@localhost>

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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 09:17 am, James Earl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just recently setup an Athlon 64 system.  I'm using an Asus A8V
> Deluxe (rev 2.0) motherboard, and a Matrox G550 video card.  I got
> the video card working under FreeBSD i386, but I'm having issues
> under FreeBSD amd64.
>
> I read a previous post that makes me believe the drivers won't work
> on an amd64 system.  However, one additional difference I noticed
> between booting up FreeBSD amd64 vs. FreeBSD i386, is that my agp
> device doesn't show up under FreeBSD amd64 (even after adding
> 'device agp' under FreeBSD amd64 kernel).

I don't know about G550 but agp driver doesn't really matter if you 
don't want DRI, i. e., 3D acceleration.

> Does agp work under FreeBSD amd64?

Can you try the following patch?

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/agp_amd64.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Jung-uk Kim

> If the Matrox drivers are architecture dependent, is it possible to
> compile a driver using the driver source Matrox provides?
>
> James



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