Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:04:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>, Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD Message-ID: <201103291004.45095.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikt8K7K%2BcY76iNjJkx_qQLCAhd=b74OKmX1w4th@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> <1301391185.71226.36.camel@xenon> <AANLkTikt8K7K%2BcY76iNjJkx_qQLCAhd=b74OKmX1w4th@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:59:24 am Christian Walther wrote: > On the downside there seem to be some work needing to be done IRT > kernel based 3D acceleration. I don't know the current status, but the > last I heard was that NVidias drivers can't be ported to FreeBSD > because the kernel lacks some functionality required (something > related to addressing the graphics board directly from software, > AFAIK). Actually, all of the kernel features NVidia needed were added in 7.3 and newer and the nvidia driver works great on both i386 and amd64 now. You can also use nvidia-settings to configure several things like multiple monitors, etc. rather easily. -- John Baldwin
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