Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:03:32 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: "Remko Lodder" <remko@freebsd.org> Cc: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, yuri@tsoft.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7? Message-ID: <b1fa29170711161503r75896c0awd09dcdd89a2a3c1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <473E16A2.1070308@FreeBSD.org> References: <1195250927.473e14ef935c6@webmail.rawbw.com> <473E16A2.1070308@FreeBSD.org>
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On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, Remko Lodder <remko@freebsd.org> wrote: > Yuri wrote: > > I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on > > 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality. > > > > Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done? > > > > I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack of driver. > > > > Yuri > > Hello, > > This discussion gets over and over again actually, no the required > support is not yet there. There is a wiki page which denotes what > is required to get this going. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests > > If you desperately need this, then consider funding someone > (this has popped up before, it's interesting to arrange something > like this because you need a trustable intermediating party that > can arrange this, the FreeBSD Foundation is currently not able > to do so as far as I can recall); who will do the work for you > or do it yourself. > > There is currently no other way to get the support you want. > > Thanks, > remko > Remko - relax :) The wiki isn't really an obvious place for people to look. If we don't already we should have a page on "popular hardware with support issues". -Kip
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