Re: nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610)

2012-10-27 Thread Gary Aitken
On 10/27/12 07:50, Gary Aitken wrote: > running 9.0 release > > Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally > (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up > Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... > > I picked up an asus nvidia gt

nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610)

2012-10-27 Thread Gary Aitken
running 9.0 release Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610. Downloaded the nvidia driver and tried to build

nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610)

2012-10-27 Thread Gary Aitken
running 9.0 release Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610. Downloaded the nvidia driver and tried to build

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since you're not willing to do the research, I'll give you the > reader's digest version. nVidia's waiting on FreeBSD to implement > key features in the kernel in order to properly support the amd64 > and i386 + PAE platforms, because memory mapping

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I have used FreeBSD for years and still hate to see this lack of support by others :-( Again, read my response and do some research before you blame nVidia. Blame nVidia..

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-14 Thread Robert Huff
Dick Hoogendijk writes: > Blame nVidia.. Can you tell me why there's no 64bits nVidia > driver for FreeBSD? Check the archives of ports@ (I think) within the last ten days. There's a substantive discussion - including contribution from the relevant person at nVidia - as to why.

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> I have used FreeBSD for years and still hate to see this lack of >> support by others :-( > Again, read my response and do some research before you blame > nVidia. Blame nVidia.. Can you tell me why there's no 64bits nVidia

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I found that the "vesa" driver works ok with a GTX 8800 - not fast - but works People don't have a GTX8800 to have it just 'work' It needs to work fast! Personally I think it's very bad FreeBSD is not supported by nV

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Thomas Sparrevohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found that the "vesa" driver works ok with a GTX 8800 - not fast - > but works People don't have a GTX8800 to have it just 'work' It needs to work fast! Personally I think it's very bad FreeBSD is not supported by nVidia, like f.i. solaris is. I d

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
On Thursday 14 June 2007 01:47:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, RW wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:33:16 -0600 > > "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I was just wondering, a while ago I remember seeing a port for the > >> nvidia driver. I was

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, RW wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:33:16 -0600 "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I was just wondering, a while ago I remember seeing a port for the nvidia driver. I was just wondering, does this work on amd64? No. Just to quell any further discussion on t

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:33:16 -0600 "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering, a while ago I remember seeing a port for the > nvidia driver. I was just wondering, does this work on amd64? No. ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I was just wondering, a while ago I remember seeing a port for the nvidia driver. I was just wondering, does this work on amd64? Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns