Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:29:44 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics card recommendation Message-ID: <20091015142944.7befda8c@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:59:49 -0400 Jerry <gesbbb@yahoo.com> wrote: > nVidia (AMD64) is not supported in 7.x versions of FreeBSD as far as I > know. There was some talk of it being supported in 8.x, but I have > not heard from anyone actually doing so. The existing driver is 32 bit and will never run on amd64. What's happened is that 8-current has provided some of the VM features that nVidia regard as prerequisites for a new 64-bit driver. > All my machines use nvidea > cards, and the lack of support for it in FBSD, even after an extended > period of time, is a real PIA. Right, but for most of that time the ball has been in FreeBSD's court.
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