Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-22 Thread Scott Bennett
...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? I using a nvidia fx5500 with the latest driver 173.14.22 on i386 and it works perfect. And it was no pain to get 3d working for games. I am still wondering what this thread is actually about

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 09:06:28AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: usleepl...@gmail.com writes: The talk/announcement on the Nvidia forum is about a native video driver for amd64 i believe. A lot of people are waiting for this ( currently there is only Nvidia support for i386 ).

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 08:11:57PM +0100, usleepl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daniel C. Dowse dcdo...@gmx.net wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:57 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread usleepless
...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? I using a nvidia fx5500 with the latest driver 173.14.22 on i386 and it works perfect. And it was no pain to get 3d working for games. I am still wondering what this thread is actually

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/20 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:56:03PM +, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/11/20 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Your question could have been phrased better but that's

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Robert Huff
usleepl...@gmail.com writes: The talk/announcement on the Nvidia forum is about a native video driver for amd64 i believe. A lot of people are waiting for this ( currently there is only Nvidia support for i386 ). I do not believe this is correct. _As I understand it_ there are

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread usleepless
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: usleepl...@gmail.com writes: The talk/announcement on the Nvidia forum is about a native video driver for amd64 i believe. A lot of people are waiting for this ( currently there is only Nvidia support for i386 ).

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Robert Huff
usleepl...@gmail.com writes: as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid ) I was looking at x11-drivers: h...@jerusalem dir /usr/ports/x11-drivers | grep video-n drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 21

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Robert Huff
usleepl...@gmail.com writes: as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid ) And see this from the Makefile: # Starting with version 1.0-7667, NVidia has dropped support for # numerous legacy GPUs.

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread usleepless
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: usleepl...@gmail.com writes: as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid ) And see this from the Makefile: # Starting with

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread Robert Huff
usleepl...@gmail.com writes: as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid ) And see this from the Makefile: # Starting with version 1.0-7667, NVidia has dropped support for # numerous

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:06:13 -0500 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: usleepl...@gmail.com writes: as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid ) And see this from the Makefile:

GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/20 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Your question could have been phrased better but that's the teacher in me! Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no amd64 driver. Food for thought

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Huff
Chris Rees writes: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no amd64 driver. There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists that pointed to a post

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Chris Rees
2009/11/20 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Chris Rees writes:   Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?   Any advice?  Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no  amd64 driver.        There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the FreeBSD

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/11/20 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Chris Rees writes: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no amd64 driver. There was a posting within the last

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:57 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? I using a nvidia fx5500 with the latest driver 173.14.22 on i386 and it works perfect. And it was no pain to get 3d working for games. cheers

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread usleepless
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Daniel C. Dowse dcdo...@gmx.net wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:46:57 + Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? I using a nvidia fx5500 with the latest driver 173.14.22 on i386

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:56:03PM +, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/11/20 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk: Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch? Any advice? Your question could have been phrased better but that's the teacher in me! Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32