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Old 31st October 2009
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Originally Posted by ionflux View Post
Yes, installing the nvidia driver was the first thing I tried, but the "make install clean" command stops with the message "nvidia driver 185.18.36 is only for i386 and you are running amd64"
nVidia provides blog only for i386, so if you want to stick with amd64, you will have to use open source nv driver from Xorg (no 3D accelration).

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What is interesting is that NetBSD 5.0.1 recognizes this card and runs X perfectly.
NetBSD can at most use nv driver which is also available on FreeBSD.

What errors you get on FreeBSD and how you are setting up the Xorg?

What does not work?
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