AMD64 + Nvidia Display Card

[Brett Wildermoth]

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 04:18 am, owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 10:26 am, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not true.  FreeBSD's kernel doesn't provide some things needed for an amd64
> driver to be feasible.

Like what???? what are these features? and if they are really important why 
aren't they on the cards to be included into FreeBSD......

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