Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:33:44 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommended PCI-E video card? Message-ID: <1144071224.686.6.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4430C91F.6070006@samsco.org> References: <20060403062711.GA52962@sysadm.stc> <4430C91F.6070006@samsco.org>
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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
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