Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:57:37 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Linux i386, NVidia on FreeBSD/amd64? Message-ID: <20050119035737.GA65592@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200501181317.j0IDHGRH003566@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200501181317.j0IDHGRH003566@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:17:16AM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I'd like my next machine to be an amd64, but need to make sure, a few > things can be made to work before comitting. > > 1) Linux/i386 emulation -- Tim's page at > http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/linux32.html I wish he'd update that page -- just use the ports now. > 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. > 3) SMP -- a dual-Opteron machine seems within my budget. Does > that change the answers to any of the above questions? Works even better. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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