Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:59:49 -0400 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: nVidia (AMD64) is not supported in 7.x versions of FreeBSD as far as I know. There was some talk of it being supported in 8.x, but I have not heard from anyone actually doing so. The existing driver is 32 bit and will never run

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed,14-10-2009 [23:48:26], Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: 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. I had an

Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread freebsd
I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D acceleration has to be in good working order. I don't really care whether the graphics driver is binary, or

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:00 -0700 free...@t41t.com free...@t41t.com (free...@t41t.com) replied: I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D acceleration

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:00 -0700 free...@t41t.com free...@t41t.com (free...@t41t.com) replied: I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@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

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@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

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Huff
jgro...@es.net writes: I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
jgro...@es.net writes: I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: 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. I am seeing mtrr error using a Diamond Radeon HD4670 on FreeBSD 7.2 Really need a lot more specifics.

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@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

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@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

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: 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. I had an old-fashioned ATI Radeon 9200 RV250 AGP with both a