In search of a video card

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

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.