video card for amd64

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?

roger

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

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