From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 29 07:50:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B87106566C for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org) Received: from qsrv02sl.mx.bigpond.com (qsrv02sl.mx.bigpond.com [144.140.93.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5A38FC26 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:50:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org) Received: from oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com ([124.188.162.219]) by omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20080329042116.TBOS2260.omta01sl.mx.bigpond.com@oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com> for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:21:16 +0000 Received: from areilly.bpa.nu ([124.188.162.219]) by oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20080329042116.NVIP5563.oaamta08sl.mx.bigpond.com@areilly.bpa.nu> for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:21:16 +0000 Received: (qmail 79617 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2008 04:21:10 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO duncan.reilly.home) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Mar 2008 04:21:10 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:21:10 +1100 From: Andrew Reilly To: JoaoBR Message-ID: <20080329152110.0b20d53c@duncan.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <200803280839.17665.joao@matik.com.br> References: <25B2B1B9-0CF8-4D12-ACBA-3C8FF61A4D00@uos.de> <20080328011449.2b8db5a8@bhuda.mired.org> <200803280839.17665.joao@matik.com.br> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg nv driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:50:28 -0000 On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:39:17 -0300 JoaoBR wrote: > well, the nv driver tends to hang xorg on amd64, at least with all nvidia > cards I tried. you can still login remotly and restart xorg but that is quiet > annoying to do every 10 minutes ... appearently it happens only with X2 or > better on any SMP kernel config and seems it doesn't matter disabling the > cores because it seems to be a xorg problem and not a os problem, so my > solution was ati/radeon I have a similar experience (although nv did work for me at one stage, it doesn't now.) Out of interest, what sort of ATI card did you get, and how well does it go with Xorg's driver? I'm coming to the conclusion that replacing my GeForce 6600LE card is the only way I'm going to get something better than the vesa driver. Cheers, -- Andrew