From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 16:48: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boromir.vpop.net (dns1.vpop.net [206.117.147.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B324337B42C for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mreimer@vpop.net) Received: from vpop.net ([209.102.16.48]) by boromir.vpop.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3BNlun37996 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mreimer@vpop.net) Message-ID: <3AD4ED37.F1A1B948@vpop.net> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:48:07 -0700 From: Matthew Reimer Organization: VPOP Technologies, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Correction: GeForce256 and better. See: http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/cvs-commit/2001-March/001888.html Matt Matthew Reimer wrote: > > Xvideo support for GeForce2 and better was added into the XFree86 nv > driver (not Nvidia's driver) just after XFree86 4.0.3. You'll have to > build XFree from CVS to get these bits. > > Matt > > Richard Tobin wrote: > > > > > Before you lambast Nvidia for wanting to keep its IP > > > under wraps, it appears that none of the other video card makers (ATI, > > > Matrox) have handed over their "crown jewels" to Open Source developers. > > > Nvidia is at least providing an optimised driver for its cards -- Matrox and > > > ATI haven't > > > > So how come we haven't even got the XVideo extension available on > > GeForce cards, unlike ATI and Matrox? Sounds fair to lambast NVidia > > to me. > > > > -- Richard > > > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message