On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:40:34AM -0500, eculp_at_encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting Garrett Cooper <youshi10_at_u.washington.edu>: > > > Diego Depaoli wrote: > >> 2007/6/5, Ed Schouten <ed_at_fxq.nl>: > >>>> In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run > >>>> FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend > >>>> on a certain piece of software which is known not to run > >>>> correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. > >>> > >>> I guess most of those are still waiting for a 64-bits nvidia.ko. > >> That's true. > >> Is there any news? > >> > > Yeah, a lot of people are still waiting for that (including me.. can't > > get nv to work under amd64 :(...). > > We should band together and get nvidia to speed up amd64 development a > > bit more *sigh*.. > > Boy am I glad that I am reading this thread. > > As weird as it may sound, I was going to go buy a new laptop, amd64 with > nvidia. In fact the explanation given by Oliver helped push me over to AMD > in addition to past experience has always been good with them. I also had > the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia which made the decision > make even more sense to me. Luckily I saw these, before rather that after > the fact. > > I understand from this that the nvidia will not run the new xorg-7.2 with > AMD64? Am I reading this right or am I just having a case of PRE-buyers > remorse? ;) Nvidia cards work just fine - just not with the nvidia driver. I'm using xorg 7.2 with the nv driver just fine on an AMD64 laptop. -- WXSReceived on Tue Jun 05 2007 - 15:02:33 UTC
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