Intel graphics card brightness control issue

2013-09-04 Thread Ethan W. House
What could be causing my brightness control to not work on my Intel graphics card. The acpi values change but no effect takes place. ehouse@derpy ~ $ sudo sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=50 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 100 - 50 ehouse@derpy ~ $ sudo sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=1

Re: Intel graphics card brightness control issue

2013-09-04 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hi Ethan, Zitat von Ethan W. House eho...@csh.rit.edu: What could be causing my brightness control to not work on my Intel graphics card. The acpi values change but no effect takes place. ehouse@derpy ~ $ sudo sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=50 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 100 - 50

Re: Intel graphics card brightness control issue

2013-09-04 Thread Ethan W. House
, Matthias Petermann matth...@petermann-it.de wrote: Hi Ethan, Zitat von Ethan W. House eho...@csh.rit.edu: What could be causing my brightness control to not work on my Intel graphics card. The acpi values change but no effect takes place. ehouse@derpy ~ $ sudo sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0

Graphics card differences between CentOS and FBSD (multi monitor)?

2013-05-18 Thread Dennis Glatting
I have a graphics card that behaves differently under CentOS 6.4 and FreeBSD 9.1. Specifically, it is an older card (Spapphire with a ATI chip set) where I have a multi-monitor set up but under CentOS the monitors come up as expected but under FreeBSD there is some kind of weird video-line overlap

Re: graphics card

2012-10-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:56:56 -0500, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I have an old computer but it works good still :). I use KDE and GIMP and I like to use Krita more but a problem is graphics card and it is slow (Gimp is okay). I have ASUS P4P800 mother board and ATI Radeon 9000 AGP graphics card. I

Re: graphics card

2012-10-23 Thread ajtiM
On Tuesday 23 October 2012 01:34:33 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:56:56 -0500, ajtiM wrote: Hi! There are several options for X you can tweak, and the native ati driver is excellent for the older ATI models. Make sure you have DRM/DRI working, and check for GL support (glxinfo,

graphics card

2012-10-22 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I have an old computer but it works good still :). I use KDE and GIMP and I like to use Krita more but a problem is graphics card and it is slow (Gimp is okay). I have ASUS P4P800 mother board and ATI Radeon 9000 AGP graphics card. I look for some Nvidia AGP cards (opengl 2.0

Re: graphics card

2012-10-22 Thread Gardner Bell
On 22/10/2012 4:56 PM, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I have an old computer but it works good still :). I use KDE and GIMP and I like to use Krita more but a problem is graphics card and it is slow (Gimp is okay). I have ASUS P4P800 mother board and ATI Radeon 9000 AGP graphics card. I look for some Nvidia

Re: graphics card

2012-10-22 Thread ajtiM
On Monday 22 October 2012 16:09:22 Gardner Bell wrote: On 22/10/2012 4:56 PM, ajtiM wrote: Hi! I have an old computer but it works good still :). I use KDE and GIMP and I like to use Krita more but a problem is graphics card and it is slow (Gimp is okay). I have ASUS P4P800 mother

support for amd vision graphics card

2012-02-03 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello, Do someone know when FreeBSD will have support for the new graphics chip (Vision, Sandy bridge)??? I am tired of watching my laptop at vesa 1024x768 resolution... Thanks... SErgio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-12 Thread Fbsd8
doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-12 Thread doug
the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still the case? The BIOS on the PE300 does not allow the on-board card to 'disappear'. I can

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-12 Thread Warren Block
accesses and forward them to the ISA bus. * Off - (the default) forces VGA and graphics devices to respond positively to palette register accesses. Is there a Init Graphics Card First that can be set to AGP/PCI? That would let the preferred card be seen first. Still only one card

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-12 Thread doug
devices to snoop VGA palette register accesses and forward them to the ISA bus. * Off - (the default) forces VGA and graphics devices to respond positively to palette register accesses. Is there a Init Graphics Card First that can be set to AGP/PCI? That would let

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-11 Thread doug
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, doug wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added

Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-08 Thread doug
When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability to have two cards in one box was lost due to int10 provided by libpciaccess. Is this still

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-08 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last century. I was told the ability

Re: Xorg support for adding a graphics card

2010-11-08 Thread doug
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:08:23 -0500 (EST) d...@safeport.com d...@safeport.com articulated: When I slid froward from FreeBSD 7.2 and Xorg (whatever) to 8.0 and xorg-7.4_4 I lost the ability to use the graphics card I had added to my Dell PE300 built in the last

GoogleEarth message Unknown Graphics Card and X crash afterwards

2010-05-10 Thread Yuri
Hello, After ports/kernel update (just 8.0 update) Google Earth stopped working. Error message shows up over the splash: Unknown Graphics Card GoogleEarth was unable to identify your graphics card ... When I press Ok X server crashes. But OS is still up. Nvidia 9400GT (i386 native driver

graphics card/monitor question

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi all, My motherboard has onboard nvidia GeForce 8300 graphics rated up to 1920x1080 (1080p). It has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Are there any issues using a 1920x1080 monitor with HDMI like LG electronics W2361V? Eg would this mode need special drivers? Or should it all just work?

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:59:49 -0400 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: nVidia (AMD64) is not supported in 7.x versions of FreeBSD as far as I know. There was some talk of it being supported in 8.x, but I have not heard from anyone actually doing so. The existing driver is 32 bit and will never run

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-15 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed,14-10-2009 [23:48:26], Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the mtrr problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. I had an

Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread freebsd
I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D acceleration has to be in good working order. I don't really care whether the graphics driver is binary

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:00 -0700 free...@t41t.com free...@t41t.com (free...@t41t.com) replied: I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D acceleration

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:31:00 -0700 free...@t41t.com free...@t41t.com (free...@t41t.com) replied: I'm in need of a new graphics card for a new computer, that I hope will run FreeBSD (with a strong preference for AMD64) and compiz-fusion on a dual-monitor, which I believe means the 3D

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search finds many posts on how to fix this but none of them seem to work. I could be wrong but nVidia does not

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search finds many posts on how to fix this but none of them seem to work. I could be wrong but nVidia does

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Robert Huff
jgro...@es.net writes: I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread jgrosch
jgro...@es.net writes: I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the mtrr problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. I am seeing mtrr error using a Diamond Radeon HD4670 on FreeBSD 7.2 Really need a lot more specifics.

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search finds many posts on how to fix this

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:05AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, jgro...@es.net wrote: nVidia support on i386 FreeBSD is not much better. One can use an nVidia card with 7.1 but under 7.2 one hits the dreaded mtrr error. A Google search

Re: Graphics card recommendation

2009-10-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:55:05 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: All of my cards are ATI and I don't know of the mtrr problem you're talking about. This X1650 works fine on i386 with both 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE. I had an old-fashioned ATI Radeon 9200 RV250 AGP with both a

unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card

2009-05-06 Thread Scott Parrish
Hi all, Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this graphics card. The boot loader hangs at the twirling baton

Re: unable to boot with Nvidia AGP graphics card

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 04:35:30 Scott Parrish wrote: Hi all, Recently my PCI graphics card failed on my Dell Dimension 4100. I replaced it with a known good card I had lying around: an Nvidia GeForce 3 TI200 with an AGP interface. My FreeBSD installation will not boot with this graphics

recommendations: new graphics card

2007-12-28 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running 8-current amd64 on a e6850 with 4 GB of RAM and currently have a nvidia 5200 GT. Well I have a $100 gift card for amazon and decided to use it to get a new video card. I also run vista and occasionally a live cd for linux but I spend

Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps

Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Norbert Papke
On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote: Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my

Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers

Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
Norbert Papke wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote: Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead

Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card

2007-03-15 Thread Norbert Papke
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:50, Garrett Cooper wrote: Composite still isn't the greatest under the 6.9 branch of Xorg (and it wasn't that great under Xorg 7.0 either). It might have improved since then though in 7.1/7.2. I am running 7,2 and still cannot get the nvidia drivers to work with

Re: Help me pick a replacement graphics card?

2007-01-22 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 22 January 2007 04:56, Kirk Strauser wrote: My aging GeForce MX 400 is dying and I want to replace it with something a bit more modern. My desktop is running FreeBSD 6.2 on a Asus A7V (Via chipset) motherboard with a 1.4GHz Athlon. This is more of a hardward question than software,

Re: Help me pick a replacement graphics card?

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:56:42PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: My aging GeForce MX 400 is dying and I want to replace it with something a bit more modern. My desktop is running FreeBSD 6.2 on a Asus A7V (Via chipset) motherboard with a 1.4GHz Athlon. This is more of a hardward question

Help me pick a replacement graphics card?

2007-01-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
My aging GeForce MX 400 is dying and I want to replace it with something a bit more modern. My desktop is running FreeBSD 6.2 on a Asus A7V (Via chipset) motherboard with a 1.4GHz Athlon. This is more of a hardward question than software, although pointers to any FreeBSD-specific driver

which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Kep Woof
hi, i'm about to build a new system and obviously it would be nice if everything worked nicely. my plan is to one of the asus A8V motherboards, but i've just spent a while reading nvidia forums and it seems there aren't any amd64 drivers for freebsd, or even any plans to release them. i need

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 4, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Kep Woof wrote: it seems like a huge waste to run the i386 version on an amd64 machine, but can anyone comment on the performance difference? Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kep Woof wrote: i need to have direct rendering and dual head dvi. in 2006, decent 3d performance doesn't seem unreasonable, even if it is just to run a swanky screen saver. i've got an xfx geforce 6800GT sitting around here that i'd like to use, but it seems this is currently impossible on

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Kep Woof
hi, On 5/4/06, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't comment on the difference because I didn't bother with amd64 for the very reasons you mention. But, for me, A8V plus single core AMD 4000 + 6800GT is plain bloody fast. It'll certainly run your screen saver :-) Runs cool too.

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On May 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Kep Woof wrote: Sure. For the most part, if you don't have more than 4GB of RAM, there is little point to running in 64-bit mode. A more fine-grained analysis: I think I get it now.. having seen loads of adverts and hype (particularly from apple) bigging up

Re: which graphics card?

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Moran
Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you saying that it just means you can address more memory? No, the CPU registers and the address bus can be wider (not just the memory bus) with Intel EM64T or AMD64 architectures, and can get more work done per clock for some tasks, but can

Graphics Card memory as swap dev?

2005-08-21 Thread Nagilum
Hi, after reading http://hedera.linuxnews.pl/_news/2002/09/03/_long/1445.html I was wondering if this would be possible with FreeBSD? I have a Soekris 4801 box which has way too less memory and no room for more so I was thinking if I could use a graphics card to mitigate the problem a bit

Re: Graphics Card memory as swap dev?

2005-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
if I could use a graphics card to mitigate the problem a bit.. Thanks... No, sorry. Kris pgp6KurhsHagE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Graphics card not recognized - Was: Re:

2003-08-20 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Montag, 18. August 2003 22:42 Ken Copling wrote: hello i bought freebsd desktop edition and it didnt reconize my graphics card so now i need to know what would be a powerful graphics card to install on my system that it will reconize Hello

Sound card noises on graphics card access

2003-06-10 Thread Thomas Schuerger
Hi, I have the following problem with FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (running XFree86 4.2.0). Recently, my AGP graphics card (Matrox G200) stopped working (a hardware defect), so I used a rather old PCI Mach64 card instead. I also have a Soundblaster AWE 64 (ISA, using pcm) in my box. Now, whenever the PCI

Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

2002-09-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
... Saw this on /. ... Hugh writes The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has announced[1] that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available. From what I read,

Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

2002-09-17 Thread David Haworth
If you tell me that your Radeon works in OpenGL 3D in XFree86 (at better than 5 FPS) I'll go buy one right now ;-) dave@blink:~ uname -a FreeBSD x.y.z 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #8: Wed Aug 7 23:17:27 BST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/X i386 drm0: ATI Radeon QW 7500

Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

2002-09-17 Thread John Bleichert
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, David Haworth wrote: Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:27:25 +0100 From: David Haworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card If you tell me that your Radeon works in OpenGL 3D in XFree86 (at better than 5 FPS) I'll go

Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card

2002-09-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow! That's great news! I may have to eat my hat... I'll definately be considering one of these for my next video card (probably next month). Consider the 8500 model carefully, as it might not be supported well yet.