nvida driver on amd64

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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:08:57 -0700
Modulok <modulok at gmail.com> wrote:

> Basically I'm looking to get an nvidia driver for an FreeBSD system on
> amd64, that supports openGL 2.0 hardware acceleration. So far, nvidia
> only supports FreeBSD on the x86. Aside from going to linux (which I
> really don't want to do) any suggestions on how to accomplish this?
> Can I use a driver compiled for x86 on an amd64 architecture perhaps?

You can run the i386 version of FreeBSD on an AMD 64. On the the whole
there's not a lot of difference in performance. The main reason for
running amd64 is to access >4GB of memory.