Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:58:23 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Mungyung Ryu <rumuru@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC Message-ID: <20081002225823.GA13439@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <e465331f0810011118i536c3e4kc1027c792bcc0754@mail.gmail.com> References: <e465331f0810011118i536c3e4kc1027c792bcc0754@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:18:10PM -0400, Mungyung Ryu wrote: > > Hi BSD folks! > > I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. > I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver > for Linux or FreeBSD! > So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce. > I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be > enough, > but it should support 1920x1200 resolution. > I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64. > Anybody can recommend? Have you tried using: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati? That should build on your machine. You can use: x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv with Nvidia cards on AMD64. The supported cards are listed in the manpage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.0/doc/html/nv.4.html Cards that will drive your resolution are mentioned in this discussion: http://fixunix.com/hardware/8213-what-video-card-support-1920x1200-dvi-resolution.html I dare say anything newish should manage it. I use the nv driver and am quite happy with it (I'm a desktop user but non-gameplayer). It's rock solid in my experience and preferable to running a blob. > > Second, I want to use zero-copy facility of FreeBSD. > As far as I know, the hardware (NIC) support (Scatter-Gather DMA) is needed > for that as well as using sendfile() api. > Among the NIC products which has SGDMA function in the market, > which one is the most well supported by FreeBSD 7R - amd64? > I got a technical support from Intel, and they said there is no Intel NIC > which supports SGDMA. > That is so surprising.. isn't it? Don't know anything about this, I'm afraid :( But I suggest you search for NICs that do SGDMA & then see if FreeBSD supports it by looking at an appropriate manpage (if there is a driver). > > The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD. > > Thanks. > Don't give up hope! The video should be easy to sort out, don't know about the NIC though. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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