FreeBSD-amd64 driver ?

[FSA]

Nvidia 9300GT vs. ATI Radeon HD 3200. Opensource drivers. ATI/AMD wins!!!! With Nvidia, I can not watch movies. I need AMD64 drivers.

[gilboa]

Nvidia 9300GT vs. ATI Radeon HD 3200. Opensource drivers. ATI/AMD wins!!!! With Nvidia, I can not watch movies. I need AMD64 drivers.

Seriously, have you bothered to read the last, say, 30 message, before you posted this "me too" message?

- Gilboa

[spideyak]

I am eagerly awaiting this driver. It's the only reason I have not switched to PC-BSD.

Please keep these driver developments in the forefront, native graphics support in an OS is a major reason I and my friends choose one brand over another. We prefer Nvidia cards, but will go with whatever works in the end.

I joined this forum just to thank you for working on these 64-bit drivers!

My system is the Zotac Atom 330 ION... I'm hoping the drivers support that card =).

[arundel]

HERE'S A LITTLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOU GUYS IN ADVANCE! (cheers)

just found the freebsd amd64 driver (195.22) in this location :

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/

i guess the announcement will be made in a few days by zander.

this is really a great milestone for everyone who was waiting for a native freebsd amd64 driver.

a massive thank you goes out to nvidia and their staff (especially zander) for making this release happen and for working so closely with the freebsd developers in order for desperately needed kernel improvements to appear in 8.0-RELEASE.

cheers.
alex

[Gnusix]

HERE'S A LITTLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOU GUYS IN ADVANCE! (cheers)

just found the freebsd amd64 driver (195.22) in this location :

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/

i guess the announcement will be made in a few days by zander.

I'm downloading 8.0Release DVD for AMD64. It's gonna take me some time to migrate my installation (i'm using gpt), and thanks god I kept my home in a different partition.
When it will be available ?

Regards

[zander]

Initial BETA drivers are available now from the location arundel pointed out. I'll post an announcement to this forum over the next few hours.

To save some of you the pain of migrating to FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE: you can use these drivers with either FreeBSD 7.3 or FreeBSD 8.0; until FreeBSD 7.3 has been released, you can use FreeBSD 7.2 with a top-of-tree RELENG_7 kernel.

Update: please see http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142120 for the release announcement.

[kuroi]

Thanks for your work Zander!

[rnejdl]

Anyone else having it page dump on exit from X ? I didn't have the compat5x installed so I am installing that now to see if that improves things. No change to grab a bug report though since it works fine until I exist KDE4.

Sincerely,
Rusty Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com

[zander]

@rnejdl: can you catch the page fault in ddb?

[rnejdl]

Let me recompile my kernel with that in there and learn how to use it. I'll let you know.

Rusty Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com

[rnejdl]

ok, it waited about 5 seconds after coming out of x and then panic'd. Here's a camera shot of the ddb and the trace. Never done this before so please let me know what else you need. It's still sitting in the debugger.

http://www.ringofsaturn.com/CIMG0723.jpg

Rusty Nejdl

[zander]

Thanks, Rusty. The NVIDIA driver is not in the trace itself, but it's entirely possible that it corrupted memory, leading to the crash. Can you generate and attach an nvidia-bug-report.log file capturing your configuration (from within X, preferably started with -logverbose 6)?

[olivier69]

That's so great, thanks zander for all the work. I just installed the driver on 8-STABLE and switched from nouveau to nvidia. It works flawlessly, better than nouveau for desktop effects, and I can play eduke32 again :)

I only changed X11BASE in the makefiles as it is /usr/local since years (I don't have the /usr/X11R6 symlink).

For a first BETA driver for amd64 it works really nice, I expected crashes and panics :)

[rhavenn]

Zander you da man!

[pdegoeje]

Indeed he is :D

Just tested the driver with an on-board GeForce 8300 which works great (1000x better than VESA let me assure you), tomorrow I'll test my main workstation with a GeForce GTX280 :-)

[llwang]

This is indeed great news. Thank you everyone. It has been an extremely long journey.

[rnejdl]

Here's the bug report I finally got. After the crash, it takes a while for the background fsck to finish.

Rusty Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com

[loveturtle]

This is great news! One tweak though, you should probably change the wording in regard to running RELENG_7. Right now it implies running RELENG_7 kernel on a 7.2 system which would be bad and cause problems. It is important to keep the FreeBSD "base system" and kernel in sync. The rest of the FreeBSD base will need to be updated to RELENG_7 along with the kernel (as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/makeworld.html). This is especially important for anyone running ZFS.

You could just change the "you can use FreeBSD 7.2 with a current RELENG_7 kernel..." to something like "you can upgrade from FreeBSD 7.2 to 7-STABLE...." and leave the rest as it still makes sense. You may also want to point them to this url http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/current-stable.html

Good work and thanks for the beta!

[zander]

@loveturtle: I've been using FreeBSD 7.2 with various top-of-tree RELENG_7 kernels over the last few weeks to test on that platform (in addition to 8.0-RC, etc.); according to John Baldwin, this is safe to do. FWIW, I haven't had any problems.

[Harvey Pooka]

@loveturtle: It is safe to run a newer kernel on an older base. The concern is with running an older kernel since there is the possibility that the base may require a system call that it lacks. Note: system calls are never removed, so the newer kernel will have all the system calls necessary for the system.

[sfourman]

Just so everyone knows, I can Play World of warcraft in wine on amd64 with the new amd64 beta driver.
You have to chroot wine (and use the identical 32bit driver in the chroot)

Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks

[Gnusix]

Tried it in a brand new i 8.0-RELEASE installation (I'll test it with my laptop as soon as I backup all my system partitions). The only issue was I had to either change lib/Makefile or export X11BASE to /usr/local.

With a Quadro NVS-290 it works fine. I'm running compiz in loose-binding mode and 20 terminals didn't trigger the black wndow bug.

I tried switching from graph mode to terminal mode and back with no problem. Tried logging out from gnome (which kills Xorg and spawns it) without a glitch. Great work.

Regards

[ReverendRed]

@zander: First off, thank you for this wonderful driver. The future of desktop usability of FreeBSD lies in your hands and you did not disappoint us.... (nana2) You rock!

But: I encounter EXACTLY the same kernel panic problems when shutting down X that rneijdl mentioned before. My setup:

FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 (amd64), GENERIC kernel
Intel E8500 (3.16 Ghz)
4 GB RAM
GeForce G 210 (Gainward), 512 MB DDR2 (VBIOS 70.18.2d.00.00)
Default resolution is 1920x1200.

And, of course, nvidia_load="YES" is in /boot/loader.conf and
/etc/rc.conf looks like this:

ifconfig_nfe0="DHCP"
keymap="german.iso"
keyrate="fast"
saver="blank"
sshd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"


Since several users in different forums told me that they do not have these problems, I suspect either a configuration or a hardware issue.

[rnejdl]

I believe this to be related to ACPI and am testing that theory now. The 3rd crash I got showed that I was stuck within the ACPI subsystem. This has always been a temperamental part of FreeBSD.

Rusty Nejdl
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com

[zander]

@ReverendRed: I've seen a few reports of this, but I'm not sure what makes or breaks a given configuration, yet. Can you generate/attach an nvidia-bug-report.log file?