Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

Henrik Hudson lists at rhavenn.net
Wed Oct 1 18:48:25 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 01 October 2008, "Mungyung Ryu" <rumuru at gmail.com> sent a missive 
stating: 
> Hi BSD folks!
>
> I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64.
> I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting
> driver for Linux or FreeBSD!
> So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce.
> I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be
> enough,
> but it should support 1920x1200 resolution.
> I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64.
> Anybody can recommend?

The nVidia binary drivery doesn't support amd64 if you were thinking of using 
that. Personally, if it's in the cards I would look for a intel board with 
the onboard video.

> The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD.

Call the vendors and tell them you want drivers.

Henrik
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