Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:25:50 -0800 (PST) From: aline <aline@riseup.net> To: alive <alive@dienub.org> Cc: Isaac Mushinsky <itz@mushinsky.net>, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use? Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0803051421070.32207@cassowary.riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <d540b42863905eb88c89ddedd212a970@dienub.org> References: <20080305171303.GA35180@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <d540b42863905eb88c89ddedd212a970@dienub.org>
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On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, alive wrote: > On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:13:03 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: >>> I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating >>> installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some >>> problems. >>> >>> My nvidia card will not be of much use (GeForce 8500GT), since >> nvidia-drivers >>> are not there for amd64, and the open source nv driver does not even >> support >>> XVideo extension for these cards. I can downgrade to a nv 7xxx series >> card, >>> which works better with the open driver. I do not mind loss of 3D >> support, >>> but would need basic things like mplayer. >> >> Any ATI card up to and including the 9250 (rv280) is fully supported on >> amd64, 3D and all. (I know because I've got one :-) > Oh, is that so? Could you please tell me how you got it to work? Because > I've got GREAT issues getting *ANY* ATI card to work with at least > Composite on FreeBSD and/or Linux. And I've even got i386. Or has something > happened since I last cried myself to sleep over this driverless hell? > -- > Sincerely, > Rada > I own a Radeon 9600 pro and with the xf86-video-ati from git tree I can get 3D and even tv-out through xrandr. I believe that that the new 6.8.0 (which still is not in the ports tree) We'll gona be able to have everything (3D, tv-out) out-of-the-box in the same way as the git one. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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