From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 21 18:00:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 617C21065694 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com (mail-ew0-f226.google.com [209.85.219.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7878FC20 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so659747ewy.3 for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:00:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OelUbHX/YJQsyds0Ir1BLare7u5USZ6DPjKqpm4/tlc=; b=sRMrVNHl9wpcsO2uvpQfWKC3z8rlDsr49mVSprkLGTU9HKvCY2K+Oamylnyd+4ufI7 5XksNBlYIwQ6v1zqVv0lgE3iT707N2TFSgc12aUTAjAkVqdT1UKMIdiSVq/KAcYLDHlK tU8otSlzkwN2KBcMMJyeSOS1xGGRMJyEZijeU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Z3Hlz9c5wWcVv534oHZ+ul7RnbAw5RPsKvFRA7VDO3Vu5pE/Q/bEgt/FEJR2eANYEL c4FOsfm+pmTsqfpz18lniNzRZABnDdCaBj1Q+C6yaN5AR8khzEzTv/vrzVn7HxEULSf5 0lmalYHcBN1LrFhetDnYJ4GjK19OOshHDYv9g= Received: by 10.213.21.10 with SMTP id h10mr2803593ebb.17.1258826432912; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:00:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm1242393ewy.14.2009.11.21.10.00.31 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:00:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:29 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091121180029.5dcda76a@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <19208.7685.618806.427672@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20091120114657.GA22584@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091120181629.3e1a3aee.dcdowse@gmx.net> <20091121112802.GA70284@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <19207.62436.23817.593443@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <19208.397.260679.116124@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <19208.7685.618806.427672@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: GPUs on FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:00:34 -0000 On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:06:13 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: > > usleepless@gmail.com writes: > > > > > as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved > > > > drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i > > > > nvid ) > > > > > > And see this from the Makefile: > > > > > > # Starting with version 1.0-7667, NVidia has dropped support for > > > # numerous "legacy" GPUs. Consult NVidia README (the Appendix) > > > to # find out whether you need to use legacy driver version and > > > install # one of corresponding `x11/nvidia-driver-71', > > > # `x11/nvidia-driver-96', or `x11/nvidia-driver-173' slave ports. > > > > > > > > are you trying to be right afterall? > > Someone's confused. If it's me, that needs to get fixed. You're confused on more than one level because this thread is not about graphics drivers, however: nv is the basic open-source x11 driver provided with xorg, it has poor 2-d performance and no 3-d support, nouveau is a open-source fork from nv that aims to improve performance and add 3-d support. nvidia is the the proprietary binary provided by nvidia, it's been around for years, but nvidia were not prepared to release an amd64 version until FreeBSD provided certain features in the kernel. Those features will be in 8.0, so nvidia are now working on an amd64 version.