From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 03:17:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A61216A418 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sunnzy@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF3A13C447 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:17:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sunnzy@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so4585588waf.3 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:17:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Dt/pttl6XfLMbNGkgEO77D7ZZVEpSln56e2Q5d9lNfo=; b=IjUx8PiFs+gJQBgxfcfa/q2S9kdJekRWw3BYIsKD4LP7brr4izG6MNdAv5MQRqJq/BfKCdXshRDCBAgRmXODZWkQ+a+s6amZnLrPf58bgMLBT2UiW6OiplBLfY/UaWlzvMuIRTGOxDc8KwcAYvg+hMCYJFYf6XTpi+etGC7Y+O4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=RwgQpdf3aD08zB7sxeLmqxM5HFDk+Ihsvx2sF7XDWMHBJ5hOMICWe7x2asRkpvrNeFduMEt8mxyTjQW2p2N14uNGmJjgniI1/nrWZYaG0sd7rhhxooXgvcNVBKV6vASTB7LV2TGuuNJNTZJNbs0zIurGsETp+aF/hgZFDSJq5xM= Received: by 10.114.37.1 with SMTP id k1mr3675511wak.6.1198034277161; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.79.20 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:17:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:17:57 +1100 From: Sunnz To: "Sam Fourman Jr." In-Reply-To: <11167f520712181658y2e043004sd0b4ae2ed38f4ee2@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <86ve6wmgq4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4a37b1e529bab094e2c50b7deca7df87@127.0.0.1> <200712182305.06426.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <476828A0.2060901@chuckr.org> <11167f520712181219j5fe8fbbek6bf6429a856d2ec2@mail.gmail.com> <8663yvfsoc.fsf@ds4.des.no> <11167f520712181658y2e043004sd0b4ae2ed38f4ee2@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Kip Macy , Martin Cracauer , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Chuck Robey , =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= , mh@kernel32.de Subject: Re: amd64 NVIDIA support in FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sunnzy+gnu@gmail.com List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:17:57 -0000 If you got enough friends, and willing to pay some money, why not put your money together to hire a programmer to work on a free and open source driver like: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org The Linux camp were able to raise $10'000, though it wasn't organised and the fund did not end up going anywhere, it is still something that can be done. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0