Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:13:25 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64 Message-ID: <20080202231028.P4423@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <200802022112.28641.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> References: <200802022112.28641.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk>
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> After running a 90 hour portupgrade job on my current Duron 1600 based system > I've persuaded myself that a hardware upgrade is due. simply use precompiled ones if it's a problem. anyway - i don't what bloatware you have compiled but on my 1200Mhz Thinkpad i needed few hours to install things i use. > > I'm contemplating building a system around an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU. I'm not > into games and overclocking so a relatively low end motherboard with > integrated graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many of > them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia graphics > driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. by general there are lots of problems with nvidia as it's closed source. i always avoid closed source. > If I choose a Nvidia based motherboard would I have to install the i386 > version of FreeBSD if I wanted to use the onboard graphics, in which case to > what extent would the overall performance suffer? i would check if it will really work as it should - AT ALL, before buying. > > My graphics needs are fairly modest, so long as I can use the Gimp to edit > some photos I'm OK, but playing the occasional DVD fairly smoothly would be a > bonus but not essential. Is there any alternative graphics driver which would > meet my needs? any WORKING card should suffice for your needs.
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