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BlueScreenTT
07-06-2006, 07:09 AM
Hi !

i have tryed looking at different forums and usergroups !
but i cant find any help that solves my problem with getting my sapphire X1800XT to work under Freebsd / PCBSD

ati cant help me they got a linuxdriver but i cant get it to work !

A friend of mine is using gentoo and it works on Gentoo but we cant get it to work on Freebsd !

Is my only chance to got out and get a _Nvidia and then use the Nvidia FreeBsd driver i can get from them ??

Greets
Thomas
marc
07-06-2006, 01:40 PM
Have you tried to run it through Linux Compatibility Layer?
mal.exe
07-06-2006, 03:48 PM
Indeed there is no support from ATI for freebsd, don't try linux driver this is useless.
TerryP
07-06-2006, 11:05 PM
Linux programs can run on FreeBSD, Drivers would require a Linux Kernel like that used in a Linux Distro. So we can't use Linux Drivers :(

X1800 is a realtivly new card so it might not be supported by any of the ATI or Radeon drivers. nVidia is a bit dodgy some times but at least they want to make their nVidia drivers better on FreeBSD.

What about a the standard VESA Driver?
marc
07-07-2006, 09:39 AM
hmm I thought there is a linux drivers support in PC-BSD. Well, looks like I was wrong.
TerryP
07-07-2006, 06:24 PM
Well the BSD nVidia driver needs some Linux stuff, that's all I would know as far but it's still using the FBSD kernel.
marc
07-08-2006, 12:12 PM
Oh, so there is a connection to some of the linux components ...
BlueScreenTT
07-08-2006, 08:24 PM
the vesa works for desktop use !

but i cant even see a normal screensaver in more than max 0,2 FPS ! :-(
so no 3d or anything !
TerryP
07-08-2006, 08:48 PM
nvidia-driver-1.0.8762
NVidia graphics card binary drivers for hardware OpenGL rendering
Long description : Sources : Changes : Download
Maintained by: danfe@FreeBSD.org
Requires: compat5x-i386-5.4.0.8_7, expat-2.0.0_1, fontconfig-2.3.2_5,1, freetype2-2.1.10_3, libdrm-2.0.2, linux-expat-1.95.7_1, linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4, linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5, linux_base-fc-4_5, localedata-5.4, pkg-config-0.20_2, xorg-libraries-6.9.0


I suspect the driver uses the Linux libs and thus the FC4 ABI is required rather then making the driver use native libs.
Apatewna
07-08-2006, 10:20 PM
It looks like Nvidia ported only the core functions of the driver as a freebsd kernel module. Then it left all other functionality provided by the native linux driver untouched, hence the need for compat5x library.

I'm not a driver programmer, but this is too obvious. They have to try harder than this.
TerryP
07-09-2006, 06:25 PM
I think when we do get new and high end nvidia drivers their will probably a new kernel involved.

I believe Antik or Charles, or some one else posted a link dealing with some nvidia/freebsd work on drivers.
antik
07-09-2006, 06:34 PM
I think when we do get new and high end nvidia drivers their will probably a new kernel involved.

I believe Antik or Charles, or some one else posted a link dealing with some nvidia/freebsd work on drivers.

Yes (http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=4037&highlight=nvidia).