nvidia

Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
Wed Mar 23 23:13:32 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:06 +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:31:26 -0500, Damian Gerow <dgerow at afflictions.org> wrote:
> > Thus spake Gert Cuykens (gert.cuykens at gmail.com) [22/03/05 18:30]:
> > : Do the nvidia display drivers work on amd64 ?
> > 
> > Quite well, actually.  Just not with the binary driver supplied by nVidia.
> > In the meantime, you can use the open-source 'nv' driver with neither issue,
> > nor hardware-accelerrated 3D.
> > 
> > I have no clue when nVidia will be releasing a driver, so don't ask.
> > 
> 
> At least the support is better then ATI :(

On AMD64?  Definitely not -- you've still got 3d acceleration for Rage
128 through R200 on AMD64.  Sure, the latest cards aren't supported, but
that's still unfortunately the best there is for FreeBSD/amd64.



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