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Cc: Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD 6.0 fully support PCI-Express?
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> As far as I know Nvidia hasn't allowed Xorg to write drivers
> for their cards, all the nvidia drivers out there are
> binaries from Nvidia.  This for me would cross that card
> off my list.

Just to correct this bit of mis-information, there are two drivers 
available for nvidia.  The nv driver is an open source driver provided 
by xorg, and the nvidia driver is a closed source driver provided by nvidia.

Later,
Micah