From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 5 9: 7:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A57F37B440 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [192.160.51.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 986EF43E65 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g75G7H405907 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:07:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g75G7GY19030 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:07:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm112324-2k.mitre.org (128.29.105.195) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 11090341; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:06:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3D4EA2AB.D4E56EA5@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:07:07 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en]C-20020130M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers References: <20020803183617.V55525-100000@sasami.jurai.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Erik Greenwald wrote: > > ugh, sounds like the lip-service I was getting. "I'll look into that" :/ > > No, they're working on it, and actually have GL running in the lab. > > > I'm starting to ponder the legality and challenge involved in reverse > > engineering the card and building a driver from scratch... maybe > > something that works with X the X way (dri/drm) > > You're a funny guy. > > You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people. Yeah, I've been wanting to buy a GeForce to replace my aging G200 for some time now, but now I'm probably going to look into the ATI solution instead. If only I hadn't been burned by crap ATI drivers and not-as-good-as-advertised 3D performace in the past (this is a dual boot machine). -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message