Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:42:32 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: "Sébastien" Morand <seb.morand@gmail.com>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia using 32 bits install Message-ID: <151985.79421.qm@web56801.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <16d3abd60804011003l5562687o9f2136e72cbd2125@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Sébastien Morand <seb.morand@gmail.com> wrote: > > Be aware that some ports are only available on > i386. E.g. the nvidia > > drivers and the windows emulator wine. > > I discoreved too late :-) Too bad for me, I should > have checked before anyway. I recently tried FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Athlon64-X2 5200+ workstation. I decided that it'd be more interesting to run natively 64bit than to have 3d acceleration which I barely if ever use anyway from the nvidia.com binary driver. While the Xorg `nv` driver did compile, install, and even allow Xorg to start on amd64, the system would hang within a very short time of running Xorg. In the end, my only solution which allowed me to have useable video output was to use i386 instead. I did find that some thing ran faster, or at least seemed to, on amd64 than they did on i386, especially compiling world, the kernel, and other large things. Please do feel free to head over to the nvidia forum and add your hand to the sea of raised hands asking them to get their drivers working on FreeBSD/amd64. Their binary drivers for FreeBSD/i386 have worked flawlessly for me for some years now. - mdh ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com
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