Support for nVidia GeForce 7025/7050PV/nForce 630a graphics

[Manish Jain]

Robert Noland wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 22:16 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
>> Robert Noland wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 18:09 +0530, Manish Jain wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking of going in for an AMD solution for my new home PC.
>>>>
>>>> Does FreeBSD work easily with Asus M2N68-AM (nvidia GeForce 7025/nForce 
>>>> 630a graphics as per Asus; nvidia GeForce 7050PV/nForce 630a graphics as 
>>>> per CNET/other sites). I would probably be using this along with Athlon 
>>>> Dual-Core 5200+
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD-7.1's drm directory in src does NOT seem to have a listing for 
>>>> GeForce 7025/GeForce 7050/nForce 630a. And xorgconfigurator just lists 
>>>> one (generic) driver nv for nvidia. So would DRI work ?
>>> There are three possible drivers, nv (kindof old and crusty), nouveau
>>> (in current ports), and the binary blob from Nvidia (currently i386
>>> only).  For nv, there is no drm.  For nouveau, I have patches for drm
>>> support that I may go ahead and commit to -CURRENT over the next couple
>>> of days.  The current patch also applies to -STABLE.  With the patch you
>>> should get accelerated EXA and Xv, but not 3d yet.  I have gotten the 3d
>>> driver to sort of work, but generally it isn't in a user ready state (on
>>> linux either).
>>>
>>> The binary blob does whatever it does and I'll let others give you
>>> details on that.
>>>
>>> robert.
>>>
>>>> I ask this because I currently have an i810-based motherboard for which 
>>>> there is no DRI support in FreeBSD and I need to make sure I don't end 
>>>> up without DRI again.
>>
>> Hello Roland,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. One final question.
>>
>>> With the patch you should get accelerated EXA and Xv, but not 3d yet.
>> I am only interested in playing DVD's, not games. Are EXA and Xv 
>> sufficient for that ? If 3d is required too, then I have to dump this 
>> idea altogether and try something else.
> 
> Xv is normally what is used for video, so I think you should be ok.  I
> don't have this particular card/chip though...
> 
> robert.
> 

Hi Robert/Roland.,

I have finally purchased an AMD-based 780G Gigabyte MB with ATI Radeon 
3200 graphics on board. Can you please advise me which driver to use ? 
Will it work on 7.1-RELEASE, which is the distribution I have available 
readily ?

This goes with a quad-core Phenom processor.

Thanks for any advice.

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Manish Jain
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