Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:48:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> To: scottl@samsco.org (Scott Long) Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Subject: Re: which video card for FreeBSD/amd64 Message-ID: <200504241848.j3OImZeR088746@corbulon.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <426BE772.9080301@samsco.org>
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> > I'll, probably, give up on NVidia soon. The free "nv" driver does not > > support two monitors on the same card, and the proprietory "nvidia" > > driver does not support amd64. My attempts to get the Linux/amd64 driver > > to work have so far yielded nothing but solid hangs of the system. > An amd64 version of the nvidia driver is in the works, but the amd64 > kernel needs some features before it cam become a reality. I know > that people are working on those features, but I know no idea what their > timeline is. You are, probably, talking about Page Attribute Table (PAT), right? According to the Linux' driver's NVIDIA_Changelog, PAT is only used on Linux since last fall -- earlier releases did not need it, it seems. > > Is there a decent AGP or PCI-X > > I assume you mean PCI-E here, not PCI-X. I mean PCI-X. My IWill DK8X has no PCI-E slots. > > dual-DVI card out there, that offers > > decent 1600x1200 picture on FreeBSD/amd64? 3D is not a requirement... > > I have an ATI X600 Pro card driving a 1600x1200 LCD DVI display, and > it looks __nice__. It only has one DVI output, though. I imagine that > ATI sells versions that have dual DVI. And Xorg/XFree86 had no problems? Since I'm buying a new one anyway, I'd rather have something supported by our radeon drm-module, but such things may not have dual DVIs... Thanks! -mi
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