Clifton Royston wrote: > I'm soon to build myself a new AMD X2 workstation system on which I > plan to multiboot various operating systems including FreeBSD, a couple > Linux distros and probably Windows XP Pro, and probably also run > virtualization software (VMWare and/or Xen.) I'm hoping for it to last > me through a few years of occasional upgrades, which makes me dubious > about choosing an AGP motherboard. > > I can't find anything specific about PCI Express in the 6.1 release > notes. However, I have Googled up some reports of various PCI-E > graphic cards working badly in Xorg under FreeBSD and other open source > OSes. In general should PCI Express graphics cards work properly and > perform reasonably well for Xorg and OpenGL graphics under FreeBSD, if > I avoid the "touchier" nVidia cards, or do I need to stick with AGP for > reliability? > > If there's a better mailing list for getting an authoritative answer > to this, I'd appreciate the pointer.
I have an nVidia GeForce Go 7800 connected on a PCI Express 16X bus which is working very well under Xorg with FreeBSD Current and the nvidia driver from ports. It's connected to a 945PM chipset from Intel. So far it's been very stable and it's been giving me very good performances with UT2004 and Quake3. The only time I've got crashes what when I tried to use one of the raster modes on the syscon console. The system would crash trying to map the syscon framebuffer when I switched to any vt. Steph _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
