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Subject: Re: AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card
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On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth@griffith.edu.au>:
> > To all my fellow FreeBSD users,
> >
> > I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just
> > bought seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get
> > everything bar the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network
> > to work also. However no matter what I do I can't get X to work.
> >
> > Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They
> > make one for
> > Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86.
> >
> > Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some people
> > already have.....
> >
> > Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS......
>
> Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. Just
> post that
> you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll reconsider.

Not true.  FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for an amd64 
driver to be feasible.

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