amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7

[Martin Cracauer]

Oliver Fromme wrote on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:09:37AM +0100: 
> Kip Macy wrote:
>  > Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>  > > from what it sounds like it ATI may be more of a realistic hope for
>  > > compiz, and 3D video games to one day work on 64bit FreeBSD
>  > > 
>  > > Thank you for taking the time to explain this.
>  > 
>  > I don't know the status of ATI at the moment - if you want 3D support
>  > on FreeBSD right *now* I think nvidia/i386 is your only option.
> 
> It depends on your performance requirements.  If you don't
> need the latest and fastest, an intel graphics chip might
> be an option.

To my surprise, google earth (my "killer" 3D application) runs fine in
this month's Xorg and FreeBSD RELENG_6 on my Radeon 7500 loaded
Thinkpad.

"fine" limited to after a long time idle it dies but it's really
usable for a normal login session.

> 3D acceleration support works fine with the i915 in my
> two years old notebook, and it's supposed to work as well
> with newer ones (although I've seen a problem report for
> the i965 recently).  3D performance is sufficient to run
> typical OpenGL screen savers or OpenGL games such as
> crack-attack or xkobo-deluxe in full screen (1400 x 1050)
> without flicker or jitter.  That's a 2-years old 1.6 GHz
> Pentium-M.

Does it run Google Earth?

Martin
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