From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 21:36:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6477716A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:36:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49AC43D46 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:36:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0CLasOp035265; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:36:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <43C6CBFB.30407@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:36:59 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: amd64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: freebsd-gfx-bugs@nvidia.com Subject: Any idea of an ETA on nVidia / amd64 driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:36:56 -0000 Been running linux/amd64 on my laptop now for close to a year with great success, problem is I really don't like the layout or O/S in general; would much rather have FreeBSD on this thing, but then I lose my graphics and my wireless LAN drivers :( - WLAN I hear may work though... so that leaves just the graphics driver; any ideas on an ETA, or even if such a driver is in the workings for FreeBSD/amd64 ? Running an nVidia GeForce4 420 Go 32Mb with vbios 04.17.20.43.25, using nvidia driver version Linux-amd64 1.0-7667 ... will there be any performance issue, or even the posibility of using the 32-bit (x86) nvidia driver for FreeBSD/x86 on FreeBSD/amd64, or am I doomed to stick with linux/amd64 unless I go back to FreeBSD/x86 ? -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/