Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Quoting Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:40:34 eculp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Diego Depaoli wrote:
>> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed@xxxxxx>:
>>>> In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run
>>>> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend
>>>> on a certain piece of software which is known not to run
>>>> correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many.
>>>
>>> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko.
>>
>> That's true.
>> Is there any news?
>
> Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me..
> can't get nv to work under amd64 :(...).
> We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64
> development a bit more *sigh*..

Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread.

As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64
with nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me
over to AMD in addition to past experience has always been good with
them. I also had the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia
which made the decision make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw
these, before rather that after the fact.

I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2
with AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of
PRE-buyers remorse? ;)

It is true that the closed source nvidia driver will not work on an AMD64
system.

However, bear in mind that Xorg does not support any recent AMD cards (X1300
or newer) with anything other than the vesa driver. The open source drivers
support up-to the x850 (actually, the x1050 now, iirc). The AMD/ATI Xpress
chipsets are supported by the open source 2D drivers, but not (yet) the 3D
drivers.

Your best bet might be to go with a laptop with intel graphics.

Hi Adam,

Back to the drawing board as they say. I've been trying to make that decision for a couple of weeks now, since my old laptop's disk died.

I guess you are right but I should probably add a gig of memory to be sure that all will be well. I had actually thought of upgrading it from one to two and that just gives me justification ;)

thanks,

ed

Intel integrated graphics are getting better all the time, their driver's open sourced, and OpenGL compatible.

Then again I'm biased because I work for them :).

-Garrett

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