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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Sam=20Pikesley?= <samdavidpikesley@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: NVidia's FreeBSD drivers
To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: avleeuwen@piwebs.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.org
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Hey, I didn't mean to slate this stuff at all, I
wholeheartedly applaud nVidia's efforts, it's just
that my desktop suddenly started failing in new and
unexpected ways when xscreensaver kicked in...
 
--- Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Many
people also need to take the fact that several
> 'generic' cards
> often have the Nvidia chip on them.  So these
> drivers may not work
> in all situations, it is something we need to take
> into account.
> 
> So far i've heard 2 good and 1 semi-negative. 
> Perhaps sometime this
> week I'll throw an Nvidia card into a machine and
> intall 4.7 &&
> the drivers.
> 
> In the meantime, I'll most likely put a 'news flash'
> Nvidia releases
> FreeBSD drivers for their video chipsets/cards.
> 
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:19:43 +0000 (GMT)
> Sam Pikesley <samdavidpikesley@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I spent much of this afternoon installing and
> > configuring these drivers. Be warned: they are
> VERY
> > beta... 
> > 
> > --- Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
> wrote: >
> > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > nVidia released their closed-source, 3D
> accelerated
> > > FreeBSD drivers for all 
> > > GeForce chips yesterday (see www.nvidia.com).
> Isn't
> > > there something we can do 
> > > with this? Should I contact nVidia's PR
> department?
> > > 
> > > Arjan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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