GPUs on FBSD?
usleepless at gmail.com
usleepless at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 14:36:10 UTC 2009
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> usleepless at gmail.com writes:
>
> > The talk/announcement on the Nvidia forum is about a native video
> > driver for amd64 i believe. A lot of people are waiting for this
> > ( currently there is only Nvidia support for i386 ).
>
> I do not believe this is correct. _As I understand it_ there
> are (currently) two options:
>
> 1) "nv" driver; written by nVidia, but does not support
> recent (last N generations) cards, works only for i386,
> and does not support 100% of 3d functions. Breakage
> fixed, but no new features added.
> 2) "noveau" driver; written by third parties, works for i386
> and amd64 (maybe for others). For what works, see the
> (hopefully outdated) web page.
>
> Under development:
>
> 3) "????"; written (and maintained/improved) by nVidia, words
> for i386 and amd64, supports all cards, supports all
> functionality. ETA not announced; no public testing yet.
>
> If anyone knows better, please correct this.
>
>
as far as i know there have been Nvidia maintained/improved drivers for
FreeBSD for ages ( ls /usr/ports/x11 | grep -i nvid )
and for example:
%kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 8 0xc0400000 5ec918 kernel
2 1 0xc09ed000 753c90 nvidia.ko
3 1 0xc497c000 e000 fuse.ko
4 1 0xc4b64000 2000 rtc.ko
The announcement may be about a unified driver, i don't know about that.
3. "nvidia". have X use the Nvidia supplied driver.
Works for me?
xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31-80"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-76"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024"
Option "DamageEvents" "True"
EndSection
Is this not what you meant?
regards,
usleep
> Robert Huff
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