Re: video card for amd64

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

Well, in that case I installed OpenBSD 3.8 on my computer but when I try
to run X a gray screen with lines comes up and the system hangs. I ran
Xorg -configure before startx so I think it's configured properly. I was
thinking that it was because the card wasn't supported that this was
happening. Has anyone ran into this problem before.

> Roger Midmore wrote:
> > I just built a new amd64 system with a nvidia 7800gt graphics card but
> > want to run OpenBSD. I know that OpenBSD won't support the card but was
> > wondering if it's possible to install another really cheap video card and
> > have OpenBSD work. Or have a workaround with MESA instead?
> >
>
> OpenBSD doesn't support DRI (ie hardware accelerated OpenGL) at all for
> now. But X.Org provide software OpenGL using Mesa in this case.
>
> The 'nv' driver in X.Org 6.9 supports the 2D acceleration features of
> the 7800GT so X should just work won your system.
>
> --
> Matthieu Herrb