What are the future plans for NVIDIA drivers?

[guitarfreak]

On 2014-04-04 04:15, John Marino wrote:
> On 4/4/2014 09:41, guitarfreak wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> I hope this is the right list for my question.  Anyway, could someone
>> tell me what the status/future plans are for NVIDIA on DragonFlyBSD
>> (proprietary or Nouveau)?  I am very interested in using it as my
>> desktop OS, but unfortunately have an NVIDIA GTX 550 Ti.  All of my
>> other hardware works great, and I love HAMMER.  I am about to pull the
>> trigger on buying an ATI card, but I have noticed that nvidia-settings
>> is in the dports tree on github, and I believe it is only useful for 
>> the
>> proprietary driver, so I thought I'd ask first.  I hope this question
>> isn't inappropriate to ask as a user.
>> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Using a NVIDIA card with an NVIDIA driver is not an option, and there 
> is
> no anticipated change to this situation in the outlook.  The
> nvidia-settings port is therefore useless (it was added automatically,
> not manually with reason).
> 
> John

John,

Thank you very much for getting back to me so quickly.  If you wouldn't 
mind, could you recommend what the newest fully supported AMD Radeon 
cards/series for DragonFlyBSD are?  I apologize to keep bothering you 
with this, it's just that as I search the mailing list a lot of the 
posts are older and may not be relevant for the current release, so I 
want to be sure before I buy anything.  Thanks again, I truly appreciate 
all of the work you and the other devs have put in.