From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 09:08:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9837516A41C; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:08:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from itchy.rabson.org (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F5C43D45; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:08:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.rabson.org (herring [10.0.0.2]) by itchy.rabson.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6E97rSH077048; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:07:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Brett Wildermoth Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:07:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> <200507131418.01991.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200507140743.11021.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200507140743.11021.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507141007.51665.dfr@nlsystems.com> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (itchy.rabson.org [80.177.232.242]); Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:07:55 +0100 (BST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/977/Tue Jul 12 23:53:40 2005 on itchy.rabson.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kenneth Culver , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:08:10 -0000 On Wednesday 13 July 2005 22:43, Brett Wildermoth wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > Quoting Brett Wildermoth : > > > > To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > > > > > > > > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I > > > > have just bought seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With > > > > 5.4 I can get everything bar the network and X to work, with > > > > 6.0 I can get the network to work also. However no matter what > > > > I do I can't get X to work. > > > > > > > > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. > > > > They make one for > > > > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. > > > > > > > > Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some > > > > people already have..... > > > > > > > > Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS...... > > > > > > Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. > > > Just post that > > > you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll > > > reconsider. > > > > Not true. FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for > > an amd64 driver to be feasible. > > Like what???? what are these features? and if they are really > important why aren't they on the cards to be included into > FreeBSD...... There are a few missing VM features that any high-performance graphics card driver would require for decent performance with PCI Express. John is working on adding those features - have patience.