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Subject: Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?
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Mike Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Is there an open source driver with good 3D acceleration?
> 
>    <mike

Could I ask, does anyone here know the reason (even in general) that the Nvidia
driver isn't working on the i386?

I mean, I was wondering what might be my next project ... I have the machinery,
and the source code is totally available, it's not a matter of Nvidia giving out
a binary-only module, right?  So, is anything more known?
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