Video Card Info

[Chuck Robey]

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George Hartzell wrote:
> 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.

I have an amd64 host, but I don't run FreeBSD on that one, I sort of spread
myself out so I can cover a few extra platforms.  I did hear that the nvidia
driver didn't work on amd64, but I couldn't tell you why.  It's probably covered
onthe FreeBSD-multimedia mailing list, and I would search the archives  of that
list before bothering folks on that.

The FreeBSD mailing list archives are great resources.

> 
> g.
> 
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