Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:39:24 -0500 From: eculp@encontacto.net To: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <20070605133924.om35kjhiscg0o0o0@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20070605170453.GB38752@atarininja.org> References: <499c70c0706050348x3cf9e50fn929b910e7c6b0519@mail.gmail.com> <200706051316.l55DGSU0052272@lurza.secnetix.de> <20070605132320.GQ45756@hoeg.nl> <83e5fb980706050828t2551a7e3jd0cc9c53d86886d9@mail.gmail.com> <466581B7.6080903@u.washington.edu> <20070605114034.zhsdibbccgwswk00@intranet.encontacto.net> <20070605170453.GB38752@atarininja.org>
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Quoting Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org>: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:40:34AM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: >> Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>: >> >> > Diego Depaoli wrote: >> >> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>: >> >>>> In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run >> >>>> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend >> >>>> on a certain piece of software which is known not to run >> >>>> correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. >> >>> >> >>> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko. >> >> That's true. >> >> Is there any news? >> >> >> > Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me.. can= 't >> > get nv to work under amd64 :(...). >> > We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development= a >> > bit more *sigh*.. >> >> Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread. >> >> As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with >> nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to = AMD >> in addition to past experience has always been good with them. I also h= ad >> the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia which made the decisio= n >> make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw these, before rather that af= ter >> the fact. >> >> I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 wit= h >> AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of PRE-buyers >> remorse? ;) > > Nvidia cards work just fine - just not with the nvidia driver. I'm > using xorg 7.2 with the nv driver just fine on an AMD64 laptop. > > -- WXS > Wesley, you made my day. Thanks. To show my ignorance, I thought the =20 nv driver was synonymous with the nvidia driver. I use nv for all my =20 desktops with AMD but they are not AMD64 and they work great. Thanks a lot, ed
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