nVidia drivers

nVidia don’t produce their drivers for FreeBSD AMD64! The bundled source code builds OK, but the binary object is 32-bit and so can’t be used.

While it’s good that nVidia produce these packages it really isn’t an open source solution. The company try to trade on their “open source” friendliness, but that’s just marketing. Apparently people have been asking nVidia to produce a FreeBSD driver for AMD64 for over a year now, so I’m not going to hold my breath that one will appear anytime soon. Now I remember why I haven’t bought any of their products in the last few years…