Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:57:25 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Card Info Message-ID: <18562.3813.193149.206667@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <200807191038.26500.shinjii@maydias.com> <18561.16452.345863.889045@almost.alerce.com> <20080719130514.731a2e43@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW writes: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 > George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote: > > > 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. > > But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow, > makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support. > > The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through. I'm running amd64, so I didn't even try the proprietary one. g.
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