Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:55:22 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvida driver on amd64 Message-ID: <20061223125522.41f3cbee@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660612221508n430d51a2y6b98fda4bf1a24d8@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660612221508n430d51a2y6b98fda4bf1a24d8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:08:57 -0700 Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: > Basically I'm looking to get an nvidia driver for an FreeBSD system on > amd64, that supports openGL 2.0 hardware acceleration. So far, nvidia > only supports FreeBSD on the x86. Aside from going to linux (which I > really don't want to do) any suggestions on how to accomplish this? > Can I use a driver compiled for x86 on an amd64 architecture perhaps? You can run the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD 64. On the the whole there's not a lot of difference in performance. The main reason for running amd64 is to access >4GB of memory.
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