Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 07:12:06 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Isaac Mushinsky <itz@mushinsky.net> Cc: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 platform newbie -- what video card for x11? Message-ID: <20080305061206.GA18748@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200803050032.17324.itz@mushinsky.net> References: <200803042252.13008.itz@mushinsky.net> <200803042347.22771.itz@mushinsky.net> <20080305045851.GB14420@mail.irbisnet.ru> <200803050032.17324.itz@mushinsky.net>
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--SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:32:16AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: > You seem to be patient indeed, is there any indication that nvidia will e= ver=20 > release an amd64 driver?=20 IIRC, NVidia has requested some changes to the FreeBSD kernel. I'm not sure if or when those will be implemented. Maybe ask the hackers@ list. IMHO this is the wrong way to go about things. Binary only drivers can be a PITA. The FreeBSD team cannot debug or support them. Only the vendors can. And for them, FreeBSD-amd64 must be the niche of a niche market. If kernel internal interfaces change, you'll have to wait until a new driver is released by the vendor. I suspect that most binary drivers are recompiled windows drivers with a FreeBSD wrapper. Given the average quality of windows driver, the question is do you want something like that in your kernel? > Google shows years of empty rallying and petitions.=20 > Very much like the adobe/flash9 situation. It seems that ATI cards have= =20 > better support now. Since ATI was acquired by AMD, they seem to have begun releasing more documentation. For more information check the Xorg/freedesktop websites and mailing lists. It seems that ATI and Intel are now the best wrt releasing documentation so that free/open source drivers can be written. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHzjm2EnfvsMMhpyURAgcJAJwNEcyYtDPZgTWeE6gJ118qy9XRuQCgjTRy hbjnTHo3qOb4JhI3aTIniiU= =MXJ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLDf9lqlvOQaIe6s--
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