Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:57:00PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/11/2006 01:28, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? Until NVidia decides to provide proper documentation for their cards, I'd avoid them and go with an ATI product. Hmm, Nvidia cards generaly work much better on FreeBSD as well as solaris then ATI cards. I would never buy a card on its documentation quality. I believe DW was referring to the engineering documentation of the underlying hardware, so that a proper open source driver could be developed. Not the Users Guide. Without proper docs, an open source drive can not be developed. Hence everyone is forced to use whatever NVidia decides is worth developing. -- Regards, Eric Indeed I was. While I try to research my potential hardware purchases as much as possible, I sometimes make mistakes and get stuck with something that does work, but not to its full capability. Most recently this has included an Asus K8N-E motherboard (NVidia chipset) and a GeForce video card (I don't recall the exact model ATM). NVidia did release a binary driver for my card, but not for AMD64 processors. From what I understand, AMD and ATI have been more open with their hardware documentation than Intel and NVidia. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 03:05, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? I mentioned this on freebsd-stable, but I had problems with the newest NVidia driver (8776) causing READ_DMA errors on my ATA drives. I have to stick with the older version 8774 for now. -- Kirk Strauser pgpx33q1OsL00.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On 11/11/2006 01:28, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? Until NVidia decides to provide proper documentation for their cards, I'd avoid them and go with an ATI product. Hmm, Nvidia cards generaly work much better on FreeBSD as well as solaris then ATI cards. I would never buy a card on its documentation quality. I believe DW was referring to the engineering documentation of the underlying hardware, so that a proper open source driver could be developed. Not the Users Guide. Without proper docs, an open source drive can not be developed. Hence everyone is forced to use whatever NVidia decides is worth developing. -- Regards, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 11:07 +0100, Tore Lund wrote: Another reason to use it is monitor calibration. To add to that, I have a wide screen monitor that runs at 1680x1040 but the xorg driver will not run at that resolution. -- Rod it takes an unusual mind to see the obvious. - Alfred Whitehead ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? 3d It's also useful for getting all of your other video-out (svideo, composite, 2nd head, etc.) features working. Beware though. NVidia refuses to release documentation for their cards and forces you to run binary blobs to get all of the card's features to work. Also, they don't offer said blobs for all platforms, so you may get burned. I've had the misfortune of wasting my money on one of their cards only to find that their binary driver is only available for x86. Until NVidia decides to provide proper documentation for their cards, I'd avoid them and go with an ATI product. -Damian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? Until NVidia decides to provide proper documentation for their cards, I'd avoid them and go with an ATI product. Hmm, Nvidia cards generaly work much better on FreeBSD as well as solaris then ATI cards. I would never buy a card on its documentation quality. -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? 3d ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD driver for? 3d Another reason to use it is monitor calibration. My GeForce worked fine without the Nvidia driver. However, for photo editing I wanted to control brightness, contrast and gamma. Running nvidia-settings seemed to be the simplest and best way to accomplish that. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
