Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:13:29 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia Message-ID: <1111648409.995.4.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <ef60af0905032313067d501c6b@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af0905032215301951dcb9@mail.gmail.com> <20050323013126.GH53316@afflictions.org> <ef60af0905032313067d501c6b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:06 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:31:26 -0500, Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> wrote: > > Thus spake Gert Cuykens (gert.cuykens@gmail.com) [22/03/05 18:30]: > > : Do the nvidia display drivers work on amd64 ? > > > > Quite well, actually. Just not with the binary driver supplied by nVidia. > > In the meantime, you can use the open-source 'nv' driver with neither issue, > > nor hardware-accelerrated 3D. > > > > I have no clue when nVidia will be releasing a driver, so don't ask. > > > > At least the support is better then ATI :( On AMD64? Definitely not -- you've still got 3d acceleration for Rage 128 through R200 on AMD64. Sure, the latest cards aren't supported, but that's still unfortunately the best there is for FreeBSD/amd64.
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