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Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Nvidia amd64
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Remko Lodder wrote:
> without that, do notice that people do this in their own free time, which
> could either take some time before it's there, or might not be interesting
> enough to work on currently (because of other things at work, private life
> other code etc).
>
>   
To say that there isn't enough interest in the nvidia driver would
be outrageous. The lack of a amd64 nvidia driver currently the first
cause that makes desktop users like myself prefer other operating
systems to freebsd. I'm still using fb, of course, because on the whole
it's still worth it. But I'm not happy about it (the nv driver doesn't work
on the 8600M GT, so I'm forced to use the dumb vesa driver)...

There's a lot of projects going on, and I appreciate it, but I can't help
thinking that maybe some developers should consider this a priority as much
as many of us users do...