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Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: GPUs on FBSD?
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Chris Rees writes:
>  > Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?
>  > Any advice?
>  
>  Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no
>  amd64 driver.

	There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the
FreeBSD mailing lists that pointed to a post indicating nVidia is
working on native {i386, amd64} drivers.  The post was dated
November 5th; it provided no expected release date beyond "when it's
done".  My personal _estimation_ would be "when 8.0 ships, or soon
after".


				Robert Huff