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

[Manish Jain]

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.

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Manish Jain
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