I am very anxious to move my shiny new quad core desktop over to FreeBSD but was dismayed to find that nvidia did not have a 64 bit FreeBSD driver.
Through further research (and some speculation), I learned that nvidia was asking for some sort of kernel support from FreeBSD. Granted, I do not know the entire situation, I thought I would post and see if anyone could shed some light on how things are progressing with nvidia and getting a functional 64 bit driver.
One other concern that I have is WINE with the 64 bit version of FreeBSD. I still enjoy a good game session now and again, but would like some clarification as to how the underlying 32 bit functionality of FreeBSD is and how it will affect 32 bit (not necessarily windows) applications. Does anyone have experience with running 32 bit apps with WINE on an AMD-64 system?
Thanks for your time.
Through further research (and some speculation), I learned that nvidia was asking for some sort of kernel support from FreeBSD. Granted, I do not know the entire situation, I thought I would post and see if anyone could shed some light on how things are progressing with nvidia and getting a functional 64 bit driver.
One other concern that I have is WINE with the 64 bit version of FreeBSD. I still enjoy a good game session now and again, but would like some clarification as to how the underlying 32 bit functionality of FreeBSD is and how it will affect 32 bit (not necessarily windows) applications. Does anyone have experience with running 32 bit apps with WINE on an AMD-64 system?
Thanks for your time.