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Accelerated nVidia Drivers for FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the bring-out-all-the-freebsd-games dept.

zero0w writes "nVidia has released the official OpenGL accelerated driver set for FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE. Check out the nVidia Driver page for more detail. According to the page, this release should be considered as initial beta. So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system, yet."

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  1. well it is about time! by JDizzy · · Score: 2, Troll

    We BSD folk have been waitting for this, because we like to play Quake too! The bad part is where are the drivers? Nvidia's web page only show's the Finux variety. Hopefully the website will update soon. There is no mention of this on the FreeBSD -stable mail-list from any Nvidia folks, so I'm a bit skeptable. The only mention on the FreeBSD list thus far is also pointing to the same website, with not metion of FreeBSD driveres.

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  2. So what? by No+inspiration · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't mean to troll, but are there any _existing_ applications / games that would benefit from this?

  3. Source code... nVidia... by pVoid · · Score: 0, Troll
    Not that I believe nVidia should be giving out the source code, but I must admit, I'm *really* really curious to see what their source would look like.

    nVidia is probably my favorite 'huge' company in the world. They are just simply righteous.

    Kudos to them really.

  4. Production System? by den_erpel · · Score: 2, Troll

    So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system

    I am using GNU/Linux for quite some years now and have moved to the NVidia drivers fairly early.

    You should not run _any_ production system with the NVidia drivers,they are the cause of the most system crashes. Not even for the tried and tested GNU/Linux platform :(

    Come to think of it, why would you want 3D support on a production system :) Would you trust anyone running Q3 on your file server ;) Just leave off X alltogether ;)

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