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Old 1st November 2009
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1) I noticed that my NetBSD installation (with X server working) is also using the vesa driver! So also in that case, even if X works well, it will probably have limited capabilities. I don't need 3D acceleration though ...
The open source 'nv' driver only supports accelerated 2D and XVideo, they only way to get 3D acceleration is via the proprietary driver released by NVidia.

The 'vesa' driver is a really dumb 'framebuffer', almost nothing will be offloaded to your GPU.. it will steal CPU time away from other applications.

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2) Can I install FreeBSD i386 on my machine, even if it has an AMD Phenom X4 processor? Would it result in a performance hit?
AMD64 is just an extension of the original x86 architecture, it can run 32-bit operating systems just fine

As mentioned, NVidia has a proprietary 2D/3D driver.. for FreeBSD (..32-bit) but I don't recommend using it.

Eventually a new reverse engineering project 'nouveau' will replace the 'nv' driver which NVidia barely maintains anymore.

http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://www.freshports.org/x11-driver...-video-nouveau (..found a port, perhaps it'll work?)
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