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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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>> Your talking about things without providing any evidence as usual.
>> It's just bollocks. NVidia has fabulous 3dgraphics cards and their
>> drivers work very very well. At least they do on solaris (32/64bit).
>> 
>
> ...and Mac OSX and Linux and even Windows

well is said too much at least compared to advertised performance of their 
GPU. but it works.

anyway it's NTG, ask nvidia to write needed kernel module (as they say 
they need it) for FreeBSD, or make their hardware documentation fully open 
so other may write it.