Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:03:00 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia driver on amd64 Message-ID: <x7r6oe8z97.fsf@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 23\:11\:50 -0700") References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706131747180.18410@hymn01.u.washington.edu> <200706140209.12134.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <x71wgf1596.fsf@nagual.nl> <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> writes: > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> 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. Blame nVidia.. Can you tell me why there's no 64bits nVidia driver for FreeBSD? I know there is a 32bits one. I used it on fbsd too. It used to need special settings (agp). Use of nvidia driver comes first hand, so what kind of research do you mean? If I upgrade my solaris box it starts 64bits on AMD or 32bits on a 32b machine. Including Xorg-7.2; including the nVidia driver (all 64bits). You can download it on the nVidia site. But not for FreeBSD. And that's what I 'hate' (like I wrote). What's the fault in that reasoning? Linux and solaris are better supported and that's a pity. > The nv driver works better than the vesa driver IMO -- it provides > much better 2D support than the vesa driver. Absolutely. But nVidia beats the hell out of the nv driver. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++
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