In search of a video card

[Josef Grosch]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:45:17PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Josef Grosch <jgrosch at mooseriver.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce
> > 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home
> > machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into
> > X. It just hangs. I've been poking around and, based on what I read, some
> > FreeBSD developers and Nvidia have gotten into a finger pointing contest as
> > to what is the problem. Its all very nice but doesn't help me much.
> 
> I can shed some light on the amd64 binary nvidia driver issue
> John Baldwin has implimented the features the Nvidia people need.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2009-01-2009-03.html#Device-mmap()-Extensions
> 
> if you read the nvnews fourms Zander made refrence to working on a 64bit driver.
> 
> 
> Sam Fourman Jr.

Great! So there is hope for my Nvidia card. 



Josef

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Josef Grosch           | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 7.2
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