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Dark Aspect
December 27th, 2009, 01:19 AM
Hello,

Does anyone know if Nvidia will every support a 64-bit BSD based kernel? Its seems unfair, their web site offers 64-bit Linux, Windows and Solaris drivers. This leaves FreeBSD and PC-BSD users out in the cold IMO, especially if they have more than 4 GB of RAM.

Bachstelze
December 27th, 2009, 01:32 AM
They do since version 195.22 of the drivers (works on FBSD 8 only).

Dark Aspect
December 27th, 2009, 01:45 AM
They do since version 195.22 of the drivers (works on FBSD 8 only).

Great, um so do I just select x86 or can you give me a link to the 64-bit drivers? Or can get that via BSD's pkg_add repositories?

Nvidia's web site only shows x86.

Bachstelze
December 27th, 2009, 01:56 AM
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/195.22/

The 195.22 drivers are beta, I guess that's why they aren't on the main site. The README is also not accurate, it's basically a copypasta of the x86 one...