Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:18:00 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>, Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card Message-ID: <200507131418.01991.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050713102642.k4svdf8s08ososkk@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> <20050713102642.k4svdf8s08ososkk@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote: > Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>: > > To all my fellow FreeBSD users, > > > > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just > > bought seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get > > everything bar the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network > > to work also. However no matter what I do I can't get X to work. > > > > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They > > make one for > > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. > > > > Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some people > > already have..... > > > > Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS...... > > Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. Just > post that > you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll reconsider. Not true. FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for an amd64 driver to be feasible. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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