amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7
Ian FREISLICH
ianf at clue.co.za
Wed Dec 19 02:26:12 PST 2007
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > While this is true (by the way, what is FreeBSD? nVidia is a
> > corporation, therefor not a democracy, but what is FreeBSD?), at
> > least a petition could show how many users would like to have amd64
> > nvidia support for FreeBSD.
>
> More or less they know already. Just have a look at the nVidia forum
> and count the messages there.
While that may be valid, it may only be accurate to a few orders
of magnitude. Because:
I'm reasonably sure I'm not the only person to tell a story like
this.
I used to use an nVidia card. It got retired when I upgraded my
machine and I specifically bought an ATI card. It didn't need a
proprietry binary driver to make it work properly. ATI seems to
have much better support in X and the drivers work on amd64. I
don't think that I will ever buy another nVidia card. In fact, I
was sorry I bought the last one almost immediately after I plugged
it in. I wouldn't recomend that anyone buy an nVidia card either.
Ian
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