Re: Core 2 Duo
Goncalves, Antonio wrote: It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish release shall I install? Both i386 and AMD64 versions will work, but you'll probably have less problems with the i386 version. There are even nVidia binary drivers for FreeBSD, but you must check if they support your card. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Core 2 Duo
On Mar 14, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: Goncalves, Antonio wrote: It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish release shall I install? Both i386 and AMD64 versions will work, but you'll probably have less problems with the i386 version. There are even nVidia binary drivers for FreeBSD, but you must check if they support your card. i386 is 32-bit and amd64 is 64-bit. All newer Intel non-Itanium 64- bit chips are compatible with amd64. Like I discovered though you may want to grab an appropriate LiveCD to match your hardware though, because your hardware may be too recent for a release CD. See my thread about 5 days back in the archives--some people that replied gave me links to where the release CDs were. Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Core 2 Duo
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:39:22PM +0100, Goncalves, Antonio wrote: Dear Sir, I would like to use the FreeBSD as the OS of my new Laptop, instead of SUse. It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me know wish release shall I install? Generally you would use the latest release (currently 6.2) and then cvsup (csup) to RElENG_6. In some cases and possibly this one, when the hardware might be very recent, you might have to go even more bleeding edge and install the development branch to get some needed hardware support. That would currently be 7.0 and csup to the latest available. In general, you do not have to go backwards to match hardware compatibility. jerry Many thanks in advance, Best Regards, Antonio DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, the information contained in this message is privileged and confidential, and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message and/or attachments is strictly prohibited. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. Furthermore, the company does not warrant a proper and complete transmission of this information, nor does it accept liability for any delays. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the message. Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Core 2 Duo
On 2/25/07, Philip Radford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past on a P4 chip I would put pentium4 in the cputype parameter in /etc/make.conf but are there any other settings here I can adjust or any by using sysctl. I'm using CPUTYPE?=prescott amd it's safe, nocona broke my kernel. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Core 2 Duo
Am Sonntag, 25. Februar 2007 10:10 schrieb Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri: On 2/25/07, Philip Radford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past on a P4 chip I would put pentium4 in the cputype parameter in /etc/make.conf but are there any other settings here I can adjust or any by using sysctl. I'm using CPUTYPE?=prescott amd it's safe, nocona broke my kernel. I'm no compiler expert, but prescott and nocona are Net-Burst architectures. Core(2) is a pentium-m successor, which was a completely different (x86) architecture, so optimizations for netburst won't have a positive effect, if they work at all. I use CPUTYPE?=pentium-m, but I've never done any comparisions to binaries compiled without CPUTYPE. After several years observation with CPUTYPE I guess the improovement ist smaller than ever these days, and until now it was rarely mesureable. -Harry -- OmniSEC - UNIX und Windows Netzwerke - Sicher Harald Schmalzbauer Flintsbacher Str. 3 80686 München +49 (0) 89 18947781 +49 (0) 160 93860101 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
