From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 3 13:34:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 2675E16A475 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:34:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5B943D4C for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:34:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 13E023815E; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av7-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05DAE380C3; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:13:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 62-20-235-92-no21.tbcn.telia.com (62-20-235-92-no21.tbcn.telia.com [62.20.235.92]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AF837E4A; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:34:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Joel Dahl To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <4430C91F.6070006@samsco.org> References: <20060403062711.GA52962@sysadm.stc> <4430C91F.6070006@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:33:44 +0200 Message-Id: <1144071224.686.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended PCI-E video card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:34:13 -0000 On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 01:05 -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Igor Robul wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm planing to build AMD64 based workstation, and have one question: > > > > which PCI-Express video card works best with X.org on freebsd-amd64 in > > x64 mode? > > > > AFAIK nVidia does not have binary drivers for FreeBSD on AMD64, so what > > opensource driver works best for X.org+FreeBSD+AMD64? > > When I looked at this a couple of months ago, the answer was that 2D > works just fine, but there simply isn't any support for this > configuration for 3D acceleration. Maybe that has changed recently. True, however jhb is working on PAT (which AFAIK Nvidia needs if they're going to produce a driver for FreeBSD/amd64) in perforce and this commit message is quite interesting, especially the last sentence: http://perforce.freebsd.org/changeView.cgi?CH=93413 -- Joel