From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 1 02:40:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0493616A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 02:40:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C45E43D46 for ; Wed, 1 Dec 2004 02:40:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james@icionline.ca) Received: from d137-186-177-227.abhsia.telus.net ([137.186.177.227]) by priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.netESMTP <20041201024014.XMAZ24672.priv-edtnes28.telusplanet.net@d137-186-177-227.abhsia.telus.net>; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:40:14 -0700 From: James Earl To: Gary Jennejohn In-Reply-To: <200411301048.iAUAmPSJ034940@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <200411301048.iAUAmPSJ034940@peedub.jennejohn.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:40:48 -0700 Message-Id: <1101955248.622.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox G550 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 02:40:16 -0000 On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 11:48 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > James Earl writes: > > DRI isn't extremely important to me. Getting a working mga_hal_drv.o is > > much more important however... otherwise I can't use the DVI output on > > the graphics card. I realize now, that's not really a FreeBSD amd64 > > problem though. > > > > Yes, that's a problem. I was forced to give up my G550 because MATROX > didn't have any 64-bit drivers at that time. The situation may have > changed since then, it was several months ago. It doesn't seem to look anymore promising at this time either. There doesn't seem to be any added hope expressed by the tech support staff's posts on the Matrox support forums. Luckily returning my card was fairly painless. Now I just have to wait a couple days to receive my ATI Radeon 9250. It ships out tomorrow, so if there's any last words of advice/general info... please speak now! :) James