Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:52:26 -0400 From: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020806185226.GB31673@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org> In-Reply-To: <20020806105038.GA674@tombstone.gomerbud.com> References: <20020806105038.GA674@tombstone.gomerbud.com>
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On 2002-08-06 03:50 +0000, David P. Reese Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:30:47 -0700, Bill Huey wrote > >I understand somebody has got the 2d side of this working in FreeBSD, > >but the 3d stuff crashes still. > > The 2d stuff works great on my geforce2. The best part is the XVideo > extensions. My last card was a Voodoo3 2000. I cant even begin to tell > you how much better DVD's play with this card. The drivers are availible > at > > ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/ > > Support for 3d is still a bit off, but Matt seems to be optomistic due to > his recent news post at > > http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html > > True 3d support is exciting. Using the provided drivers from nVidia (hacked > to hell, of course), you should get true OpenGL 1.3 support. Thanks SGI. > If you think SGI has much to do with us getting OpenGL, you're wrong. (they indirectly could have, but things got blocked by other parties). > The current drivers are based off of rather old linux drivers. I think they > are from the beginning of the year. No support for the geforce4 yet, but > the fact that 2d works and seems to work well leads me to believe that > the number of people using nvidia cards under FreeBSD should be increasing. > A larger user base means that nvidia should be willing to pay more attention > to us. The drivers are old because things have pretty much been left to NVIDIA for a while. We (and especially Matthew) have done what we could, it's their turn now. NVIDIA paying attention will only happen if the lawyers/suits see $$$ in FreeBSD. Good luck. Our user base is a joke compared to Windows/Linux/Mac. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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