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Subject: Re: Which Nvidia-driver should/can I use with amd64?
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:07:56 +0200
Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> wrote:

> 
> FreeBSD 7.1-BETA FreeBSD 7.1-BETA #0: Sun Sep  7 09:38:41 UTC 2008 
> root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 
> /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver says it's for i386 not for amd64.

You have to use the open-source nv driver in xorg. I wouldn't install
amd64 on a desktop machine with nVidia graphics for this reason.