From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 4 8:12:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E6B37B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 08:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snark.rinet.ru (snark.rinet.ru [195.54.192.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E635E43E3B for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 08:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@snark.rinet.ru) Received: from snark.rinet.ru (andrew@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snark.rinet.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g74FCX2C042016 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:12:33 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from andrew@snark.rinet.ru) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by snark.rinet.ru (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g74FCXH2042015 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:12:33 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:12:33 +0400 From: Andrew Kolchoogin To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020804151233.GA32070@snark.rinet.ru> References: <20020803221347.GA3700@freya> <20020803183617.V55525-100000@sasami.jurai.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020803183617.V55525-100000@sasami.jurai.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:38:11PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd 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. Well, and, as under Linux, there will be an a closed-source library and a kernel module permamently takes kernel to the hell of core dumps? >> 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. There is another FreeBSD/NVidia Initiative to develop DRI-capable driver for FreeBSD. Did you contact him? > You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people. You want to say me that there is an ATI graphics card that is more powerful than NVidia GeForce? Sorry, but FreeBSD is really good operating system. Good enough for use it on servers. As a system programmer, I wish to have a copy of it on my home desktop. And my son/daughter wish to play games on same desktop. What should I do? Change video cards every day? Whatever? Or use ancient 16-bit NVidia drivers not capable to use even 1152x864x110 Hz? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message