Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/13/2011 14:21, Dieter BSD wrote: > John writes: >> As an open source developer I am in regular contact with >> developers from nvidia who support the >> nvidia driver on FreeBSD that they actively maintain. > > I wasn't aware that nvidia was maintaining an open source driver > for their card

Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread Dieter BSD
John writes: > As an open source developer I am in regular contact with > developers from nvidia who support the > nvidia driver on FreeBSD that they actively maintain. I wasn't aware that nvidia was maintaining an open source driver for their cards.  When did this happen?  Seems like this would h

Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/13/2011 04:54, Matt Dawson wrote: > On Monday 12 Dec 2011 19:22:55 Dieter BSD wrote: >> Full support requires full documentation or full >> reverse-engineering. nVidia is openly hostile towards FLOSS, I >> don't expect any documentation from them in the forseeable future. >> AMD/ATI is worki

Re: amd64/135040: [ata] FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2

2011-12-13 Thread Ralf Folkerts
The following reply was made to PR amd64/135040; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ralf Folkerts To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org, ralf.folke...@gmx.de Cc: Subject: Re: amd64/135040: [ata] FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2 Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:49:22 +0100

Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 03:33 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Try running ``make config'' and turn off Linux support, which is on by > default. > Works, thanks. Now, hurry, hurry UPS. tomdean ___ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread Robert Huff
Matt Dawson writes: > There are reasons why nVidia cannot release specifications, > particularly on their PureVideo technology, which happen to be > the same reasons AMD can't release theirs: They don't fully own > those technologies. As long as any of it remains closed, there will b

Re: amd64/135040: [ata] FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2

2011-12-13 Thread jh
Synopsis: [ata] FreeBSD/amd64 does not (always) detect disk on SB600/AliveXFire eSata 2 State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: jh State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 13 14:31:06 UTC 2011 State-Changed-Why: Should this PR still kept open? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13504

Re: amd64/115815: [ata] [request] Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 Motherboard unsupported SATA

2011-12-13 Thread jh
Synopsis: [ata] [request] Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 Motherboard unsupported SATA State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed State-Changed-By: jh State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 13 14:27:19 UTC 2011 State-Changed-Why: Feedback timeout. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115815 ___

Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, December 12, 2011 2:22:55 pm Dieter BSD wrote: > Thomas D. Dean wrote: > >> I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64 > >> supports fully. Nothing, so far. > > Full support requires full documentation or full reverse-engineering. > nVidia is openly hostile towar

Re: Video Card for FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64

2011-12-13 Thread Matt Dawson
On Monday 12 Dec 2011 19:22:55 Dieter BSD wrote: > Full support requires full documentation or full > reverse-engineering. nVidia is openly hostile towards FLOSS, I > don't expect any documentation from them in the forseeable future. > AMD/ATI is working on documenting their chips, but seems to be