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Subject: Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit
> FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (preferably
> PCI-E) card with 3D acceleration?
>

I'd love to be told I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the issues
blocking the nvidia driver would also effectively block a driver for which
we had the source.