Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:39:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendations? Message-ID: <20050419173957.GC26152@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <861x9bdlsz.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200504131714.20356.jkim@niksun.com> <86fyxt1ovu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050415005850.GB80903@dragon.NUXI.org> <2fd864e050414180911e4e5be@mail.gmail.com> <20050415211600.GA1473@dragon.NUXI.org> <1113603823.91832.7.camel@cream.xbsd.org> <2fd864e050415174048dc579d@mail.gmail.com> <346a802205041519071e4dc609@mail.gmail.com> <4260D654.3060301@mail.uni-mainz.de> <861x9bdlsz.fsf@xps.des.no>
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On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de> writes: > > My question si: how to force nVidia delivering the needed > > informations? It should be an aspect of customer demand. nVidia > > earns money with each sold nForce based motherboard and each GForce > > based graphics card and the better the support, the more they can > > sell. > > Why would they care about FreeBSD users? Unlike Linux, FreeBSD has > approximately zero brainshare in the computer press, and unlike > FreeBSD, Linux runs perfectly well on nForce chipsets. In fact, the > Asus SK8N which David loathes is "Linux-certified". You have NO idea how many hoops Linux jumps thru to run on the Asus SK8N. Let me repeat to you again -- _I_ was the first person to try to run 64-bit Linux on this motherboard. It didn't work. The Linux kernel grew many, many patches to deal with this motherboard and so you should be saying it is only "Linux-certified" for newer versions of Linux. However, I can run older FreeBSD versions on both AMD and VIA baesd motherboards (ie, FreeBSD versions released before the chipsets were produced). What does that tell you?? > If I didn't already know that FreeBSD is perfect and flawless and that > David is the Christ reborn, I'd be tempted to conclude that there is > something wrong with FreeBSD (or David), not with the nForce chipset. If I didn't already know DES was a huge ass.... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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