To all my fellow FreeBSD users, I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network to work also. However no matter what I do I can't get X to work. Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They make one for Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some people already have..... Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS...... Brett -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Wildermoth BEng(ME) MPhil Lecturer / PhD Student School of Microelectronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Info. Tech. Ph. +61 7 3875 5063, Fax. +61 7 3875 5384 Email. B.Wildermoth@grifith.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050713/5ccf9086/attachment.bin
Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>:> To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought > seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar > the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network to work also. > However no matter what I do I can't get X to work. > > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They > make one for > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. > > Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some people already > have..... > > Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS...... >Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. Just post that you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll reconsider. Ken
Brett, On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Brett Wildermoth wrote:> I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought > seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar > the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network to work also. > However no matter what I do I can't get X to work. > > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They make one for > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86.I don't have an AMD64, but I can understand your frustration - I'm sure there are many others in the same boat (or who will be soon). I assume part of the reason is that it just adds an extra QA load to their Linux/FreeBSD team - although NVIDIA's stuff seems to be fairly portable, it's yet another architecture to get hardware for, test and build for, and so on. Hopefully, a bit of community pressure will encourage NVIDIA to provide the resources that you need - I know that I continue to buy their cards for my (rather inconsequential) uses because of their excellent FreeBSD support (in some cases, I've got higher FPS under FreeBSD than Windows). Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Brett Wildermoth wrote:> To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought > seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything barI realize to some it may be splitting hairs, but do you mean 'PCI Express' instead of 'PCI-X'. One is 64bit/100 (or 133mhz) PCI commonly used for RAID and network controllers, the other is a redesign of the PCI architecture - and is commonly exposed as an interface for video cards. -Sam