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Date:      Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:11:50 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
Cc:        Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nvidia driver on amd64
Message-ID:  <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <x71wgf1596.fsf@nagual.nl>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706131747180.18410@hymn01.u.washington.edu>	<200706140209.12134.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <x71wgf1596.fsf@nagual.nl>

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Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I found that the "vesa" driver works ok with a GTX 8800 - not fast -
>> but works
>>     
>
> People don't have a GTX8800 to have it just 'work'
> It needs to work fast!
> Personally I think it's very bad FreeBSD is not supported by nVidia,
> like f.i. solaris is.
> I don't want to write in favor of solaris, mind you, but it _is_ very
> nice to have Xorg-7.2 installed (both 32 and 64 bits) and a working 32
> _and_ 64 bits native nVidia driver with it.
>
> I have used FreeBSD for years and still hate to see this lack of
> support by others :-(
>
>   
Again, read my response and do some research before you blame nVidia.

The nv driver works better than the vesa driver IMO -- it provides much 
better 2D support than the vesa driver.

-Garrett



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