From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 19 01:15:51 2008 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 15916106564A for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:15:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087308FC16 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:15:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431AD33C62; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E2633C5B; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by postfix.alerce.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 766454714CC; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 (PDT) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18561.16452.345863.889045@almost.alerce.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 To: Warren Liddell In-Reply-To: <200807191038.26500.shinjii@maydias.com> References: <200807191038.26500.shinjii@maydias.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card Info X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:15:51 -0000 Warren Liddell writes: > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was > wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this > particular video card ? I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it works fine. The driver info in my Xorg.0.log doesn't explicitly mention the 8800GTX though. However, there is an entry for it in the 2.1.9 nv_driver.c (which is what's currently in the port tree). I'm driving a dual-link monitor (30" Dell 3007-WFP) and needed to hack 2.1.8 to re-enable dual-link support that the author had disabled because it would work reliably in some situations and not at all in others (depending on how the bios initialized the card, if I understand his response). In 2.1.9 he made re-enabling the support a xorg.conf configuration option (see the Changelog entry for 5/9). g.