Re: GPUs on FBSD?

Chris Rees wrote:
2009/11/20 Robert Huff <roberthuff@xxxxxxx>:

Chris Rees writes:

> Anybody knows of working GPUs under FBSD on any arch?
> Any advice?

Nvidia GPUs work on IA-32 machines, but AFAIK there's still no
amd64 driver.

There was a posting within the last 24 hours on one of the
FreeBSD mailing lists that pointed to a post indicating nVidia is
working on native {i386, amd64} drivers. The post was dated
November 5th; it provided no expected release date beyond "when it's
done". My personal _estimation_ would be "when 8.0 ships, or soon
after".


Robert Huff


Now that could be very interesting....

Thanks for your alertness! I couldn't find the post you mentioned,
though there is
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=2078598&postcount=415

Chris



The link was
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=37 and the
essence is that they have a driver that works but its still pre-beta (no
date for a public beta yet)


Vince



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