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Subject: Re: Any hope to have things requested by NVidia in FreeBSD-7?
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Yuri wrote:
> I read long time ago that the reason that NVidia can't have their driver on
> 64-bit platform is that FreeBSD kernel lacks some functionality.
>
> Is this functionality present in 7.0? Or when to expect this to be done?
>
> I have NVidia card but still run 32-bit system because of lack of driver.
>
> Yuri
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You are correct and, no, this functionality will not be available on 
7.0, though someone is working on the problem.