From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 18:50:53 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 7CA7116A400 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:53 +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 0E20D13C483 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:50:52 +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 l5EIqusd016401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:52:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from dick@localhost) by westmark.nagual.nl (8.14.1+Sun/8.14.1/Submit) id l5EIokNY000809; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:50:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: westmark.nagual.nl: dick set sender to dick@nagual.nl using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200706140209.12134.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> <4670DC26.4070202@u.washington.edu> <4671634F.4060801@u.washington.edu> From: Dick Hoogendijk Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:50:46 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4671634F.4060801@u.washington.edu> (Garrett Cooper's message of "Thu\, 14 Jun 2007 08\:48\:31 -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 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 18:50:53 -0000 Garrett Cooper writes: > Since you're not willing to do the research, I'll give you the > reader's digest version. nVidia's waiting on FreeBSD to implement > key features in the kernel in order to properly support the amd64 > and i386 + PAE platforms, because memory mapping and access isn't > there yet in the FreeBSD kernel. > > Does that satisfy you? I should have read the articles first. Lack of time due to daytime job. Thought a quick reply could do. That was wrong. I wrote to quickly. I can seet aht now. However, I _was_ willing to to the research when I had the time (it's almost weekend). So you're right. It's not nVidia, but a FreeBSD kernel problem. > Read the archives in ports@, hackers@, and current@ over the past > couple months to discover more details. Will do. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++