Nvidia driver?

[George Liaskos]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> For ages now I've been buying ATI cards for my home dual-boot machine,
> but it looks like the driver situation is only getting worse so I'm
> thinking of switching camps to nvidia.
>
> How good, well supported and easy to setup is the binary nvidia driver
> for FreeBSD? Is amd64 supported? How about 9-current / HEAD?
>
> (and an almost offtopic question - what is the NV equivalent of a
> [45]6xx mid-range card?)

Never had an issue with the binary driver, i am using it for almost
two years now.
I switched to amd64 from day one that the beta driver became available.
After clang got committed to HEAD i follow CURRENT (amd64) with zero
problems too.

There is a port for the binary driver, couldn't be easier to install.
Try a GT240 based card, it has support for VDPAU feature set C too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo#Table_of_PureVideo_.28HD.29_GPUs