Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 17:52:20 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where can I get a nVidia driver for FBSD amd64 Message-ID: <44abysr597.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <274680.61590.qm@web35209.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Stephen Liu's message of "Sat\, 3 Mar 2007 15\:28\:02 %2B0800 \(CST\)") References: <274680.61590.qm@web35209.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> writes: > Hi folks, > > FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 > > I have been searching around for nVidia drvier without result. X > window can't work properly on this box. However I'm not alone. Please > visit following sites > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=15 > > and > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=82203 > > The problem existed since 11-28-04, needing a nVidia driver for amd64 > FreeBSD. > > If you want to run amd64 FreeBSD please stay away with components > running nVidia chipsets. Otherwise you will run into my situation as > well as other folks on above sites. >From those links, it looks like nVidia doesn't support their proprietary accelerated driver on 64-bit FreeBSD systems, but there is no indication that the regular open-source driver won't work. Is that a problem, or are you only worried about the lack of accelerated support?
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