Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:25:21 +0200 From: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <E1J4w77-0000wB-4G@clue.co.za> In-Reply-To: Message from Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> of "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:02:31 %2B0100." <20071219110231.rp3lts95ao8wwwgo@webmail.leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > While this is true (by the way, what is FreeBSD? nVidia is a > > corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at > > least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64 > > nvidia support for FreeBSD. > > More or less they know already. Just have a look at the nVidia forum > and count the messages there. While that may be valid, it may only be accurate to a few orders of magnitude. Because: I'm reasonably sure I'm not the only person to tell a story like this. I used to use an nVidia card. It got retired when I upgraded my machine and I specifically bought an ATI card. It didn't need a proprietry binary driver to make it work properly. ATI seems to have much better support in X and the drivers work on amd64. I don't think that I will ever buy another nVidia card. In fact, I was sorry I bought the last one almost immediately after I plugged it in. I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy an nVidia card either. Ian -- Ian Freislich
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