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Date:      Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:26:42 -0400
From:      Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
To:        Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card
Message-ID:  <20050713102642.k4svdf8s08ososkk@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz>
In-Reply-To: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>
References:  <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>

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Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>:

> To all my fellow FreeBSD users,
>
> I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought
> seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar
> the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network to work also.
> However no matter what I do I can't get X to work.
>
> Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They 
> make one for
> Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86.
>
> Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some people already
> have.....
>
> Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS......
>
Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. Just 
post that
you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll reconsider.

Ken



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