From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 03:44:38 2007 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 CE56516A41A for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5D013C45D for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so5303091pyb for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:44:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0sObWoAyPPxrE17ySF1i183q1+aZJ+Ce1VWdq8rpijI=; b=rRK0ZvqmZHZmYCtvgLj1HzEAj8/akF6OcwrHZLbNUcflzCD9gjXlVfdfkoj1fuG90hys8khehq2gTcRVGaEdQItv26DX9VnqT/KCCFrKTmoZL9lO8eNI2nEzXVtHxDSqt8bv+qdSBf0pHEUh+T8WLvBmh5Ch1Ts4BZW4djJeTLQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pVti41/He4q09CHoEJjLF63P2jr4qEyLPI084IdMS7Pn3XBXmAyT1DZcvxRUAqVZSOMoxjA4t947Cp+tSKoeg6iC4N2DU6zoAH38TWjh4j2mUKjUzrRzGuSAE3eNCkuC9LkGtxt5U+JKwbWopn+npAtq9AxgOgGqiBNgqn9OrtI= Received: by 10.65.100.14 with SMTP id c14mr8012887qbm.1195357463616; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.2? ( [67.85.89.184]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c6sm3082036qbc.2007.11.17.19.44.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:44:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <473FB515.5080907@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:44:21 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <473F250F.2030903@gmail.com> <20071117.164853.1221560804.imp@bsdimp.com> <473F7EE7.4080405@gmail.com> <20071118000233.GA5820@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20071118000233.GA5820@kobe.laptop> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers 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: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:44:38 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-11-17 18:53, "Aryeh M. Friedman" > wrote: >> M. Warner Losh wrote: >>> You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. >> All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing >> this has blown up.... also since I use a nvidia card it is almost >> pointless unless I can run the nvidia kernel module. > > That's odd. > > The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from > the FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm. Which > methods have you tried? With 4GB and a E6850 (P35/IHC9(R)) almost all the pci devices I had where reconized *EXCEPT* any nvdidia card under i386 this was instantly "fixed" as soon I switched to amd64. Even though I don't feel like rehashing all the stuff that I had to go through to get some stuff working (do a search for threads started by me) suffice it to say that when I first got the box 90% of the devices that the machine came with either where not functional and/or had driver issues. After working with the people on -current (and learning a fair amount about the guts of FreeBSD) there are only 3 issues left: 1. The NIC slowly dies (see "re(4) slowly dies") 2. Problems reading/writting from dvd/cd (see the many threads on ihc9 issues on -current [note to Jeremy the Phillips just arrived but I am in the process of doing a portupgrade -afk so will test it tommorow]) 3. The issues with nvidia kernel module on amd64 (alternativelly does anyone know how hard it would be to get bettern 1024x768 with nv?) - -- Aryeh M. Friedman Developer, not business, friendly http://www.flosoft-systems.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHP7UVJ9+1V27SttsRAjlPAJ4wqFDaow0JvT23Copd3M27x5exXACdGT1+ VYEXsDwG7uUYUtuyqqQwK2M= =8Tbq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----