Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:21:38 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Processors Message-ID: <4A099402.5050100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905121655.57875.ghirai@ghirai.com> References: <2434cab10905110348l65704a92m553da409a0e5371a@mail.gmail.com> <4ad871310905111611u7045356bn32895b7ae36adb71@mail.gmail.com> <1242097273.1568.101.camel@pukruppa.net> <200905121655.57875.ghirai@ghirai.com>
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Ghirai wrote: > On Tuesday 12 May 2009 06:01:13 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > >> Am Montag, den 11.05.2009, 19:11 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber: >> >>> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar >>> >>> <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >>> >>>>>> yes. FreeBSD/amd64 >>>>>> >>>>> Or i386. >>>>> >>>> if you want limited system - yes >>>> >>> If by 'limited' you mean being able to use nVidia drivers, that's not >>> very 'limited' to me. >>> >> Please do correct me: >> Only Graphic Cards by nVidia are a problem on amd64, everything else can >> be run via OpenSource drivers (?!) >> >> Greetings >> >> Uli. Has anyone used the Nouveau driver? I tried nv awhile on AMD64, but my eForce 8600 GTS 512MB could not even do full screen dvd playback without choking(it was dual head but still...). I don't really need much more performance than that, so if anyone has had a good experience please share. I don't really feel like farking w/ xorg.conf for another 2 days.
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