Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:31:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com> To: Alp ATICI <atici@math.columbia.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020805053133.68157.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3D4E05DB.8030803@math.columbia.edu>
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> I guess that is never going to be the case. Since > ATI does not produce > drivers for linux (or any other UNIX) and has no > such plans (AFAIK). > XFree86 supports it, this is another story. Still > you don't have any 3D > acceleration. You should be ble to get 3D acceleration using DRI ATI driver. ATI release their information so open-source drivers can be written for them. Thus you can't count this as a driver. > But you can go for > Accel-X's x server. However with NVidia case, they > provide perfect > drivers for linux. So Nvidia's stance is quite > better compared to > ATI's. Yet they don't want to open their OpenGL > implementation because > of SGI patents (Am I right?). But still they might > release (as far as > I've heard) a FreeBSD driver which would be quite > good. Really? I heard otherwise. But if they are, it would be great! I don't care > about a 10% working driver for a card of worth $200 > anyway. I care about > full support. I agree wholeheartedly especially considering some cards cost $400+. -ed > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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