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Subject: Re: NVidia i386 Driver on FreeBSD AMD64
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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 10:45 am, Ulrik Guenther wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> NVidia currently seems not wanting to make binary drivers for
> FreeBSD/AMD64. Some time ago somebody at nvnews.net started a thread
> in their forum with the plea for drivers for AMD64, the URL is
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545
>
> Maybe it helps if many people post there and tell the guys at NVidia
> that there really is need for these certain drivers.

For FreeBSD, we need to resolve some kernel issues first - some missing 
functionality in particular..  I hate to say "Real Soon Now", but it's 
going to have to do for the moment because I'm not sure how much I'm 
allowed to talk about.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5