Em Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:36:33 Isaac Mushinsky escreveu: > I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating > installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some > problems. > > My nvidia card will not be of much use (GeForce 8500GT), since > nvidia-drivers are not there for amd64, and the open source nv driver does > not even support XVideo extension for these cards. I can downgrade to a nv > 7xxx series card, which works better with the open driver. I do not mind > loss of 3D support, but would need basic things like mplayer. > > So my questions are: > 1. Should I get nvidia 7xxx or an ATI card? Which card is most likely to > work reasonably well? No fancy features required, but may be appreciated > later. I prefer ATI ones, like r300, in which works out-of-the-box with the opensource xf86-video-ati.
> 2. Any problems with flash plugin (flash7 for now, I do not mean the > confounded flash9 headache)? flash7 through nspluginwrapper works fine with firefox compiled by ports. flash9 is working through windows firefox (via wine). > 3. Other casual desktop user problems I should be aware of? > 4. Is it worth it? Perhaps I should stay with i386, but it is a pity not to > be able to use the new machine to its full potential. With amd64 you'll not get wine, VESA, boot splash screen and maybe more stuff. Even googleearth I couldn't make it work in amd64. So I think it's not a good idea to use amd64 as a desktop. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Aline de Freitas - Chave pública: ID DE632016 / keys.indymedia.org gpg --keyserver keys.indymedia.org --recv-keys DE632016
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