Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:37:17 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209171334270.5044-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <qgn0qgzn7m.0qg@localhost.localdomain>
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On 17 Sep 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Date: 17 Sep 2002 07:48:29 -0700 > From: Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com> > To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card > > ... > > Saw this on /. > ... > > Hugh writes "The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has > > announced[1] that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD > > driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for > > people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available." > > >From what I read, some people have learned not to get exited until > nVidia says "has released" -- "will be releasing" being an old story, > often told. Apparently, XFree86 manages to get enough info out of ATI > and some other companies to write open-source drivers for them in a more > timely manner. (My new Radeon 7000 works nicely under XFree86 4.2.) > Yes, but without any useful 3-D (OpenGL) support, correct? My nVidia card works fine with the XFree86 'nv' driver as well, but only with 3D acceleration where the nVidia drivers have been provided. The people following that chain-of-events wnat OpenGL; as a 2D card, most of them work fine already. If you tell me that your Radeon works in OpenGL 3D in XFree86 (at better than 5 FPS) I'll go buy one right now ;-) Sorry for the OT continuation - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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