Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:08:43 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux i386, NVidia on FreeBSD/amd64? Message-ID: <200501210508.j0L58hqD067715@corbulon.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <20050119035737.GA65592@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> > 2) NVidia X11 driver -- this is not a must, but would be very > > nice to have -- I have a fairly high-end dual-DVI card, that > > works fine on my dual PentiumII. Any hope of getting NVidia to > > release amd64-version? > > Nope. Actually, I'm quite hopeful now :-) NVidia does offer AMD64-drivers for Linux already... If enough people ask (and I just did), the support for FreeBSD/amd64 just might appear. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html > > 3) SMP -- a dual-Opteron machine seems within my budget. Does > > that change the answers to any of the above questions? > > Works even better. Any particular motherboards, chipsets to recommend? How about: http://www.iwillusa.com/products/ProductDetail.asp?vID=182&CID=92 Thanks! -mi
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