Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:54 -0700 (PDT) From: jgrosch@es.net To: "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: jgrosch@es.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics card recommendation Message-ID: <42588.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255539954.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141048240.73454@wonkity.com> References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910141048240.73454@wonkity.com>
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> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgrosch@es.net wrote: >> nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia >> card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google >> search finds many posts on how to fix this but none of them seem to >> work. >> I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in >> working >> with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. ATI also seems to >> have >> a problem with mtrr under 7.2. I'm still trying to sort this out. I hope >> 8.0 will address these problems. > > All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the "mtrr" problem you're > talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and > 8-STABLE. > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > I am seeing mtrr error using a Diamond Radeon HD4670 on FreeBSD 7.2 Josef
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