On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:59:24 am Christian Walther wrote:
> On the downside there seem to be some work needing to be done IRT
> kernel based 3D acceleration. I don't know the current status, but the
> last I heard was that NVidias drivers can't be ported to FreeBSD
> because the kernel lacks some functionality required (something
> related to addressing the graphics board directly from software,
> AFAIK).

Actually, all of the kernel features NVidia needed were added in 7.3 and
newer and the nvidia driver works great on both i386 and amd64 now.  You
can also use nvidia-settings to configure several things like multiple
monitors, etc. rather easily.

-- 
John Baldwin
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