AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

Kenneth Culver culverk at sweetdreamsracing.biz
Wed Jul 13 14:34:06 GMT 2005


Quoting Brett Wildermoth <B.Wildermoth at griffith.edu.au>:

> To all my fellow FreeBSD users,
>
> I assume I am not the only one who is in this predicament. I have just bought
> seven AMD 64s with NVIDIA PCI-X graphics. With 5.4 I can get everything bar
> the network and X to work, with 6.0 I can get the network to work also.
> However no matter what I do I can't get X to work.
>
> Why doesn't NVIDIA make a graphics driver for FreeBSD AMD64. They 
> make one for
> Linux x86-64 and one for FreeBSD-x86.
>
> Perhaps would could all post a message on nvforum. I see some people already
> have.....
>
> Perhaps NVIDIA think FreeBSD is just a hobby OS......
>
Last I heard, nvidia had no plans to make a FreeBSD amd64 driver. Just 
post that
you're pissed about it like the rest of us are... maybe they'll reconsider.

Ken


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