Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:56:30 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507132247330.23250@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au> References: <200507131933.12318.B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>
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Brett, On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Brett Wildermoth wrote: > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought > seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar > the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network to work also. > However no matter what I do I can't get X to work. > > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They make one for > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86. I don't have an AMD64, but I can understand your frustration - I'm sure there are many others in the same boat (or who will be soon). I assume part of the reason is that it just adds an extra QA load to their Linux/FreeBSD team - although NVIDIA's stuff seems to be fairly portable, it's yet another architecture to get hardware for, test and build for, and so on. Hopefully, a bit of community pressure will encourage NVIDIA to provide the resources that you need - I know that I continue to buy their cards for my (rather inconsequential) uses because of their excellent FreeBSD support (in some cases, I've got higher FPS under FreeBSD than Windows). Cheers, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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