From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 13:03:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89B816A469 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:03:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BBD13C46C for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:03:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark.nagual.nl (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id l5ED5AE3015241; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:05:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from dick@localhost) by westmark.nagual.nl (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1/Submit) id l5ED30f6000833; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:03:00 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: westmark.nagual.nl: dick set sender to dick@nagual.nl using -f To: Garrett Cooper References: <200706140209.12134.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu> From: Dick Hoogendijk Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:03:00 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Wed\, 13 Jun 2007 23\:11\:50 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (usg-unix-v) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 192.168.11.35 Cc: Thomas Sparrevohn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia driver on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:03:08 -0000 Garrett Cooper 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 ++