Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:43:05 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Subject: Re: linux 3d applications keep crashing Message-ID: <permail-2009031413430580e26a0b000009de-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0903140508sda8af37i83fdb0fb7ee1f792@mail.gmail.com>
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just tried switching back to linux_base-fc4 and compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.20. makes absolutely no difference. quake 4 still crashes. Michal Varga schrieb am 2009-03-14: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Roman Divacky > <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wrote: > > from my experience the nvidia driver does not work at all.. it used > > to work > > in 6.x times with linuxulator but recently all I got from it was > > panic > > or deadlock (depending on weather) > Doesn't work at all.. when? I guess you meant that "linux OpenGL > portion of nvidia-driver doesn't work with > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16", because otherwise the statement > doesn't make any sense. nvidia-drivers work perfectly well with > compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 (maybe not with some very recent > -CURRENT, haven't been checking for a while, but that's not the point > anyway) and actually are the only way to get any serious 3d gaming > done on FreeBSD, and I'm not even starting with OpenGL apps like > Blender (ATI users know what I'm pointing to). > This is a clear bug in 2.6 linuxulator - the OpenGL works properly in > Linux 2.4/2.6 (well, that's kinda expected), it works properly in 2.4 > linuxulator, it breaks with 2.6 linuxulator. I think it's hard to > call > that "nvidia driver doesn't work at all", but maybe I just missed the > point somewhere and earned a *whoosh*.. > > there's an ongoing work on nouveau, so stay tuned :) > Yes, that will take many years to complete, or at least, produce a > rotating cube or maybe, maybe run glxgears in around 2012. > m.
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