What's with stupid NVIDIA ?

[gnufrex]

Hello to all *BSD and Linux users, I am sorry because my first post on this fine forum will be rant but here it goes:

I installed 64-bit PC-BSD few months ago, but because off lack of 64-bit NVIDIA drivers I was forced to drop it. NVIDIA said that drivers will be ready untill end of year and they announced that list off features they want in order to make driver. Well, year is ended, FreeBSD 8.0 implemented all of the features required, and stupid liars at NVIDIA apparently forgot about their promise. There is no 64-bit FreeBSD driver on NVIDIA site... I hate NVIDIA like never before.

Anybody know why this happened, or am I right when I say that it is just because NVIDIA is a leach and FLOSS hater?

[Hentai]

When I installed 64bit PC-BSD 8 it had nvidia drivers and the desktop was fine and it ran great, using a 7800gt 256MB.

[gnufrex]

Thanks for a heads up, they confused me by not showing drivers on their site. I just installed 64-bit PC-BSD 8.0-BETA and it has 190.xx NVIDIA drivers and runs great. I am very happy right now, but I am not changing my mind about NVIDIA until they give us source code of their drivers. It appears that they are to lazy to edit their site and provide a link for AMD64 drivers they made. Still no download from NVIDIA site:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

It took 5-6 years for them to make drivers, I hope it will take less to upload it to their site .

[mal.exe]

Are ATI,intel or anyone better ?

[gnufrex]

Are ATI,intel or anyone better ?

I think the answer is no. They all range from "bad" to "worse". There is no FLOSS friendly GPU maker right now, and that is kinda sad. AMD has made a step by providing documentation for GPUs, but that is just a natural thing that any hardware maker should do. Intel has some people working on open source, but they graphics is just to crapy.

[Ian_Robinson]

NVidia's 64 bit drivers are here:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/