Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:43 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: utisoft@gmail.com Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPUs on FBSD? Message-ID: <4B06C3F7.5060700@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <b79ecaef0911200814g4fc2c3a0j3cd27f55c0e136fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091120114657.GA22584@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <b79ecaef0911200656g5d1cd95fud5df2ce3aa249f09@mail.gmail.com> <19206.45528.672400.407804@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <b79ecaef0911200814g4fc2c3a0j3cd27f55c0e136fb@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Rees wrote:
> 2009/11/20 Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>:
>
>> Chris Rees writes:
>>
>>> > Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?
>>> > Any advice?
>>>
>>> Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no
>>> amd64 driver.
>>>
>> There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the
>> FreeBSD mailing lists that pointed to a post indicating nVidia is
>> working on native {i386, amd64} drivers. The post was dated
>> November 5th; it provided no expected release date beyond "when it's
>> done". My personal _estimation_ would be "when 8.0 ships, or soon
>> after".
>>
>>
>> Robert Huff
>>
>
> Now that could be very interesting....
>
> Thanks for your alertness! I couldn't find the post you mentioned,
> though there is
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2078598&postcount=415
>
> Chris
>
>
>
The link was
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=37 and the
essence is that they have a driver that works but its still pre-beta (no
date for a public beta yet)
Vince
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