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I think that wouldn't help any -- nvidia_drv.o needs the kernel module
to communicate with the card. Theoretically, all that needs to happen is
to port the kernel module to BSD, and then everything else should just
work. See:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=triantos&max=100&sort=date&index=all&source=freebsd-hackers

Matt

Marc van Woerkom wrote:
> 
> Anyone else trying to fiddle the nvidia binary driver
> into XF under FreeBSD?
> 
> The probably crazier attempt to get it running
> under FreeBSD would be to run a complete Linux
> binary XFree86 server - I am not sure, if the Linuxulator
> is able to master such a beast.
> 
> If anyone has time to try this, please drop me a mail
> about the result.
> 
> Regards,
> Marc
> 
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