Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:47 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia display driver on amd64 Message-ID: <1193725487.1212.21.camel@darklight.org.ru> In-Reply-To: <200710292232.11335.elrap@web.de> References: <200710292232.11335.elrap@web.de>
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On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:32 +0000, Tino Engel wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL > support) set up on amd64? > Or someone has even succeded? > > The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from > nvidia stops with: > > ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd > (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is not supported > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/root/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9639/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/root/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9639. > > That probaly is the same reason, it is just only for i386. > > So where are the genious porters? > > Best regards, Tino Engel Yes, binary driver is i386 only. NVIDIA made request for some kernel features for amd64 driver - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html No news yet (or am I mistaken?). You can also read read long (over 2 years old now) thread here http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545 Be sure to check other similar threads :-) Yuri
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