Quoting Wesley Shields <wxs_at_atarininja.org>: > 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. > > -- WXS > Wesley, you made my day. Thanks. To show my ignorance, I thought the nv driver was synonymous with the nvidia driver. I use nv for all my desktops with AMD but they are not AMD64 and they work great. Thanks a lot, edReceived on Tue Jun 05 2007 - 16:39:29 UTC
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