Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:51:01 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2, FreeBSD -STABLE, drivers and capabilities Message-ID: <1112.172.16.1.33.1030499461.squirrel@babylon.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <200208280300.59677.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <20020827164253.A17125@polands.org> <200208280300.59677.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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Arjan van Leeuwen said: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 23:42, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How does one find out if there is an XFree86/FreeBSD driver for a >> given video adapter and which features are supported (2d vs. 3d, >> accelerated vs. unaccellerated)? >> > 2D accelerated. > > Thank you > Have you seen http://nvidia.netexplorer.org? It says they're still > waiting. > > nVidia 3D accelleration is *not* supported in FreeBSD at this moment, > until the FreeBSD nVidia Driver Initiative (nvidia.netexplorer.org) > comes up with something real good, or until someone reverse-engineers > the complete chipset and writes a DRI driver. Both of these things > probably won't happen soon, so you'd probably be better off buying > another card. > Well that certainly answers a lot of questions about nVidia! > > Speaking of DRI: more information can be found at > people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/. From that site, you can also see that > the only 'current-generation' chipset with DRI support is the ATi > Radeon 8500, and that's with development drivers. > > Hope that clarifies some things for you, > Thank you, it does. But, if you don't mind me asking, is there a way that a mere mortal like me can find out about various cards without having to bother the list? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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