FreeBSD-amd64 driver ?

[yurivict]

Any plans to release amd64 driver for FreeBSD ?

I recently purchased 6800GT and now have to use FreeBSD-5.3-i386 not using full power of amd64. For my application amd64 will be very advantageous.

Also Cg SDK available is only for Linux, so I have to use Linux development mode to compile anything compiling Cg.

Any hope to have Cg SDK for FreeeBSD i386 and amd64 ?

Yuri

[BahBahBah]

I too need an AMD64 FreeBSD driver. Please listen to your customers nvidia!

I have a GF6800GT

[zander]

There are no plans to support FreeBSD amd64 at this point in time, but customer requests will certainly help prioritize future projects.

[yurivict]

There are no plans to support FreeBSD amd64 at this point in time, but customer requests will certainly help prioritize future projects.

I can help port your driver to AMD FreeBSD, I did a lot of driver work for major electronics manufacturer. I can sign NDA if needed.

[kpanic]

Hello dear NVidia corporation,

I also would love to see drivers for FreeBSD/amd64 from you. And there are many more people out there who also want to have drivers for FreeBSD/amd64 :)

Thanks for listening.

[Skalla]

Please release an FreeBSD/amd64 driver, but eh wait....

PLEASE release the full specs for an Open Source driver, eh?!

cheers
Skalla

[ghostbyte]

Also looking for amd64 drivers

[sp0rk]

I, too, would like an amd64 driver. With Xorg 6.8.1 now in ports, and the Composite extension working like a charm, I think now would be a great time for one. I just tested out a full screen transparent window drag (officially available and supported in XFCE 4.2.0) and it's slow as molasses, very jumpy. This is where Accelerated graphics support would really come in handy. In linux, with the nvidia driver, this kind of thing is smooth as silk.

Thanks for the support so far!

[trippingpixie]

I signed up on these forums solely to express my interest in nVidia drivers for FreeBSD on AMD64. I purchased an nVidia 6600GT instead of an ATI as I had heard nVidia provided good drivers to the Linux and FreeBSD communities. After my purchase I was quite disappointed to find the FreeBSD drivers were limited to x86.

Also, the first time I saw this thread there were only 3 posts. Keep posting! Signing up isn't that difficult. Post your interest and tell your friends!!

[DrFishstik]

A port to AMD64 FreeBSD would be a great win for the BSD community, two alternate operating systems for gaming (Linux and FreeBsd) would show the strength of the non-Microsoft development community. Gamers and developers alike woud win. :D

[dave42]

Hello...

Yes, a 64bit version of the NVidia drivers for FreeBSD would be fantastic!
I am a fan both of FreeBSD and NVidia -- I am simply very impressed by the quality of their [32 bit] drivers.

I'm planning to buy an Athlon 64 pretty soon, and I'll use FreeBSD 5.x on that system. It basically depends on the availability of 64 bit drivers whether I'll be able to use the amd64 or the i386 version of FreeBSD -- and naturally, I'd prefer to use the former.

Alternatively, I could use the amd64 version with the open source nv driver, of course. But since 64 bit NVidia drivers are available for linux, I am actually hopeful that they will be released for FreeBSD at some point as well. Any chances? :-)

Greetings,
David

[sp0rk]

Just as a response to dave, and to shamelessly bump this post, i'm currently running FreeBSD 5.3 amd64 on an opteron, and the opensource nv driver is good enough for basic X work, but with all the cool opengl accelerated stuff thats in the pipe for GTK (via cairo) and xorg (the compositing extension isn't worth it without RenderAccel, and with the nv driver RenderAccel doesn't help at all), i would recommend i386. It's unfortunate that we can't use our favorite OS to the best of it's abilities simply because nVidia thinks a FreeBSD amd64 port would not be worth the trouble. =\

Please, nVidia, give us a binary driver! I might as well have an ATi card.

[BinDjin]

It HAS to be done. We all would appreciate it so much. On top of that, as AMD64 is growing more popular you will end up making the driver sooner or later anyways, so what do you have to lose? Nothing!

One more to the "Please make drivers for FreeBSD AMD64"-list!

[metamatics]

Me too :-)

[oksala]

Yes it would be great to have a FreeBSD-amd64-driver.

PS:
I Just bought a 6600GT AGP and I would be pleased with an updated
driver for this card.

[clash rocker]

Just voicening my request also.

Please release FreeBSD AMD64 drivers.

Also how 'bout some binary nForce drivers for FreeBSD.

[Jay79]

I needed an AMD64 FreeBSD driver too! :)
I have Athlon64 3200+/Abit K8V-MAX3/nVidia FX 5700 and want to use it with full power of FreeBSD :)

[foroyar]

Other posters covered the request - just wanted to say "Me, too!" :D

[wardw]

Another "me too" -- I just bought a GeForce 6600 GT with my new amd64 box and am very disappointed I cannot run it with FreeBSD.

I realize I am a minority of a minority here, but by all accounts 80-90% of your binary code is portable and is already being compiled for 64 bit Linux, so the work to glue it into FreeBSD is minimal. Also, I see on this thread you have offers of free development help from the FreeBSD community, so the cost and effort on your end is negligible.

The FreeBSD community may be small, but its a technologically savvy bunch with a fair bit of market influence.

For me, NV's responsiveness here will determine my future purchases and the recommendations I make to my consulting customers.

Thanks.

-- Ward

[voisine]

I also purchased an Nvidia 6600GT (and an nforce4 ultra board) solely because of the excellent 32bit FreeBSD drivers. I didn't occur to me that they might not yet support FreeBSD amd64 until I tried to install the drivers from the ports collection and got an error. Nvidias prompt attention to this matter will determine whether I continue to purchase their products.

[cdn]

Yet another "me too" post.

I'm actually in the process of choosing the parts for building a new system and I was bummed out when I saw that there were no offical drivers for amd64.

[agermont]

There are no plans to support FreeBSD amd64 at this point in time, but customer requests will certainly help prioritize future projects.

So i'll help too: i would also like to request an amd64 version of the FreeBSD drivers!

nForce drivers for FreeBSD would also be nice!

[bsd_nvidia_user]

And another driver plea.
6800gt + nforce3 + amd64 + bsd.
No drivers :(

[jOK]

FreeBSD/amd64 drivers would be nice. Please listen to us.

Thank you.

[schoki]

please release freebsd/amd64 driver :)