From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 06:25:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6233816A417 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from darklight.org.ru (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f06:84::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207B213C48E for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:25:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from darklight.org.ru (yuri@darklight.org.ru [IPv6:::1]) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l9U6OnF2080202; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:49 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l9U6OleE080201; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:47 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.org.ru: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f From: Yuri Pankov To: Tino Engel In-Reply-To: <200710292232.11335.elrap@web.de> References: <200710292232.11335.elrap@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:24:47 +0300 Message-Id: <1193725487.1212.21.camel@darklight.org.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvidia display 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: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:25:39 -0000 On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:32 +0000, Tino Engel wrote: > Dear all, > > Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL > support) set up on amd64? > Or someone has even succeded? > > The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from > nvidia stops with: > > ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32-i386-freebsd > (nv-kernel.o) to format elf64-x86-64 (nvidia.ko) is not supported > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/root/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9639/src. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/root/src/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-9639. > > That probaly is the same reason, it is just only for i386. > > So where are the genious porters? > > Best regards, Tino Engel Yes, binary driver is i386 only. NVIDIA made request for some kernel features for amd64 driver - http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html No news yet (or am I mistaken?). You can also read read long (over 2 years old now) thread here http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545 Be sure to check other similar threads :-) Yuri