Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

[Mike Meyer]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:20 -0400
Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> wrote:

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> Chuck Robey wrote:
> > Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit
> >>>> FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (preferably
> >>>> PCI-E) card with 3D acceleration?
> >>> I'd love to be told I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the issues
> >>> blocking the nvidia driver would also effectively block a driver for which
> >>> we had the source.
> >> Is there an open source driver with good 3D acceleration?
> > 
> >>    <mike
> > 
> > Could I ask, does anyone here know the reason (even in general) that the Nvidia
> > driver isn't working on the i386?
> 
> CRAP I meant AMD64.  I'm beyond hope.


This seems to be the most detailed explanation, though I have no idea
about accuracy.

http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=115157983106569&w=2

	<mike
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