Video Card Info

[George Hartzell]

RW writes:
 > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700
 > George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Warren Liddell writes:
 > >  > im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card
 > >  > an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within
 > >  > FreeBSD with this particular video card ?
 > > 
 > > I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the
 > > xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from ports back when I last upgraded and it
 > > works fine.  
 > 
 > But does the proprietary nvidia driver work? The nv driver is slow,
 > makes heavy use of the CPU, and has no 3-d support.
 > 
 > The nvidia driver doesn't work on the 64-bit version of FreeBSD through.

I'm running amd64, so I didn't even try the proprietary one.

g.