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

[Robert Noland]

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.

-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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