From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 6:15:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E8437BC5A for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 06:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id PAA01795; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:14:33 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id PAA14404; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:11:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C1256928.0048C700 ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:14:55 +0200 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: mmuir@es.co.nz Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:14:48 +0200 Subject: Re: agp and 3dfx Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've had a quick look at NVidia's "src-rpm" for its driver under Linux, and I've been very disappointed to see that the main parts of this driver are 3 binary object files for which there is no source. This inhibits porting by people from the FreeBSD projects - and it's sad, considering my owning of a TNT2 ... TfH Mike Muir on 25/07/2000 19:44:51 Please respond to mmuir@es.co.nz To: Coleman Kane , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Re: agp and 3dfx Coleman Kane wrote: > > XFree86-4 has been updated to the newest version. It has a kld named > tdfx.ko that must be installed into /modules/. When you load X, it will > load dri, agp, and tdfx all for you. There is also a 3dfx.ko to work > with /dev/3dfx. This is provided to support device accesses for glide > programs, like quake3 and all. It currently has some issues with the > Voodoo3 and Banshee hardware, but I could use another tester. It is part > of -CURRENT, and will most likely panic your box, but some output sent > to me about the crash would be helpful. Actually, if anyone has an old > agp 3dfx card they'dl ike to donate for this development, it would be > helpful. I have been testing it with my voodoo2 board with much success, > but I have had some responses from users with Voodoo3's that say that > they haven't gotten it to work. What about Nvidia's 5.xx linux driver effort... what kind of effort would be required to get that running on FreeBSD? -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message