AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

[Rainer Duffner]

Brett Wildermoth wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote:
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>>>Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth at griffith.edu.au>:
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>>>>To all my fellow FreeBSD users,
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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......
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>>>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.
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>>Not true.  FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for an amd64
>>driver to be feasible.
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>Like what???? what are these features? and if they are really important why 
>aren't they on the cards to be included into FreeBSD......
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I think this has come up before (multiple times...almost a FAQ-candidate 
IMO).
AFAICR, the changes are not in CURRENT, yet, but there are plans to 
integrate them in the future.

Can't you just run those AMD-boxes in i386-mode, for the time being?

BTW: wouldn't it be good to note things like these in the 
"errata"-section in the handbook?
The port itself is marked as "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386". But usually, by the 
time one reaches that stage, the hardware has already been bought ;-)

Do all other Xorg-drivers work on AMD64?




cheers,
Rainer