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Old 14th March 2014
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Not to sidetrack discussion, but the supplied dmesg(8) also shows an nVidia graphics card. Be aware that it is a known issue that you may or may not be able to accept all video modes with cards made by this vendor.

nVidia has historically been reticient about making the specifications to their hardware available to the public. Thus, it is difficult for the Open Source projects to develop compatible drivers. nv(4) may work for you, however, you may not get great performance.

The OpenBSD project adheres to a philosophy of including code in the base installations which can be audited. There are closed source nVidia drivers available with other Unix-like operating systems which require developers to sign non-disclosure (NDA) agreements, but this does not allow project developers to see the code, only accept unknown compiled drivers (known as "blobs"...).
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