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David O'Brien schrieb:

>
>Stop supporting nVidia by buying nForce-based motherboards.  Or complain
>to nVidia that they (1) won't give us docs even under NDA, (2) won't
>provide a FreeBSD driver like they do for Linux.  These mailing lists are
>filled with all the problems of nForce motherboards, yet FreeBSD users
>keep buying them...
>
>  
>
That sounds bad! Is there a way how we can please nVidia to offer
a more FreeBSD-friendly policy?

nForce4 based AMD64 boards are said to be the fastest and best choice
for AMD64 based systems.
It sounds disappointing that the only supported operating system is Linux
(speaking as of OpenSource operating systems).

Oliver