On Thursday 15 Dec 2011 09:30:38 Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> Just for the record it turns out that the signal 11 was apparently
> the result of having AIGLX (default) set for xorg-srerver. After
> disabling the option Xorg appears to be running stabily using
> nvidia-driver.
This wouldn't, by any cha
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:10:11 +0100
Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:08:31 +
> Matt Dawson wrote:
>
> > [1] I have three Radeon X850XT cards here which were, until the r600
> > import, the fastest 3D cards supported by FreeBSD's DRI subsystem[2].
> > While they worked, FSVO "
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 14:22 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote:
> Have you tried setting your own modeline? I managed to get a
> crappy onboard ATI RAGE XL to do 1920x1080. (With help from some
> nice folks on the questions@ list.)
I tried the modeline reported by the monitor without the x60.0. The
moni
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:08:31 +
Matt Dawson wrote:
> [1] I have three Radeon X850XT cards here which were, until the r600
> import, the fastest 3D cards supported by FreeBSD's DRI subsystem[2].
> While they worked, FSVO "work," the humble GF 210 wipes the floor with
> them in terms of stabi
On Tuesday 13 Dec 2011 22:21:55 Dieter BSD wrote:
> Matt writes:
> > [The n]Vidia binary blob and the support from nVidia on the forums
> > is generally accepted as a best-effort endeavour.
>
> Binary blobs are completely unacceptable, and there are multiple
> good reasons for this.
There are a
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:50:00 -0800
Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> I guess this means there is no "native FreeBSD AMD64" driver, but,
> linux emulation of a driver. Or, do I mis-understand linux emulation?
The driver *is* a 64 bit native driver. The linux support is there so
linux binaries can get the
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:50:00 -0800
"Thomas D. Dean" wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:46 +, RW wrote:
>
> ports/x11/nvidia-driver requires linux to install.
>
> Building the port works fine.
>
> Installing the port requires 'kldload linux' before the port will
> install.
>
> Seems like so
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:46 +, RW wrote:
ports/x11/nvidia-driver requires linux to install.
Building the port works fine.
Installing the port requires 'kldload linux' before the port will
install.
Seems like something is mixed-up.
But, kldload nvidia also loads linux.
I guess this means t
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:31:41 +
Matt Dawson wrote:
> nVidia is currently the *only* way to
> go for fully supported graphics past basic DDX. Radeons can be
> coerced into some semblance of 3D support but there's no xvmc or
> stream decode support at all for us. fglrx has it, but that's Linux
>
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 towards FLOSS, I don't expect any
documentation from them in the forseeable
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:31 +, Matt Dawson wrote:
I found a
MSI N210-MD512D3/LP GeForce 210 512MB 64-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
HDCP Ready Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127603
Is this the kind of video card for xterm and gnuplot?
This is about 1/5 th
On Monday 12 Dec 2011 05:56:31 you wrote:
> These are two different requirements. A "fully supported video
> card" would mean that you can access all the features of the video
> chip set. On 64bit FreeBSD, that pretty much lets out NVidia and
> ATI - neither release full docs or 64bit proprietary d
On 12/12/11 06:22, Thomas D. Dean wrote:
> ASUS P9X79 Motherboard, Intel i7-3930K, Diamond Radeon HD 6870 Vide,
> ASUS VS228 Monitor.
>
> I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64
> supports fully. Nothing, so far.
>
> If you recall, I had to use the Vesa driver with the
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:22:39 -0800
"Thomas D. Dean" wrote:
> ASUS P9X79 Motherboard, Intel i7-3930K, Diamond Radeon HD 6870 Vide,
> ASUS VS228 Monitor.
>
> I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64
> supports fully. Nothing, so far.
[...]
> I need a video card that will
ASUS P9X79 Motherboard, Intel i7-3930K, Diamond Radeon HD 6870 Vide,
ASUS VS228 Monitor.
I have been looking for a video card that FreeBSD 9.0 (RC2) AMD64
supports fully. Nothing, so far.
If you recall, I had to use the Vesa driver with the existing card
because KMS is not implemented. And, it
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