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Date:      Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:07:07 -0400
From:      Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
Message-ID:  <3D4EA2AB.D4E56EA5@mitre.org>
References:  <20020803183617.V55525-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Erik Greenwald wrote:
> > ugh, sounds like the lip-service I was getting. "I'll look into that" :/
> 
> No, they're working on it, and actually have GL running in the lab.
> 
> > I'm starting to ponder the legality and challenge involved in reverse
> > engineering the card and building a driver from scratch... maybe
> > something that works with X the X way (dri/drm)
> 
> You're a funny guy.
> 
> You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people.

Yeah, I've been wanting to buy a GeForce to replace my aging
G200 for some time now, but now I'm probably going to look into
the ATI solution instead.  If only I hadn't been burned by
crap ATI drivers and not-as-good-as-advertised 3D performace
in the past (this is a dual boot machine).

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