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...... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Wildermoth BEng(ME) MPhil Lecturer / PhD Student School of Microelectronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Info. Tech. Ph. +61 7 3875 5063, Fax. +61 7 3875 5384 Email. B.Wildermoth_at_grifith.edu.au -------------------------------------------------------------------
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