Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:19:29 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@i.kiev.ua> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Albert Vest <alvest@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: ATI drivers for FreeBSD - anything? Message-ID: <20051123011358.J3135@kushnir1.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20051121150552.GH1327@elvis.mu.org> References: <20051119015322.S27789@kushnir1.kiev.ua> <20051121093058.165817d1.alvest@earthlink.net> <20051121150552.GH1327@elvis.mu.org>
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On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Maxime Henrion wrote: > Albert Vest wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:58:25 +0200 (EET) >> Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@i.kiev.ua> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Is there any project on FreeBSD wrapper for ATI Linux drivers (like >>> nVidia's used to be)? If so - I'd be more than happy to test (sorry I can >>> hardly write it myself). >>> >>> Regards, >>> Vladimir >> >> I too would welcome this, mainly for ATI sound but also for video. >> >> I see the x11/nvidia-driver port can still be built with LINUX compatibility turned on; maybe if we "make extract" with LINUX=yes, the source code will contain some hints to how it can be done? > > The Linux compatibility in the nvidia-driver has nothing to do with a > wrapper to run Linux drivers; nVidia releases a build of this driver for > FreeBSD. The Linux compatibility option is here to install nVidia's > Linux OpenGL libraries so that Linux binaries can run with FreeBSD's > driver. This is possible because nVidia's OpenGL libraries communicate > with the driver by using /dev/nvidia and the FreeBSD driver offers the > same interface. In short, there is no easy way to use the ATI drivers > for Linux under FreeBSD. > True, but before they've started releasing them there was a wrapper in ports which used the Linux driver (and I think that was what motivated nVidia to release FreeBSD drivers). I just thought might be somebody who knows better than myself woud feel interested enough to write a similar wrapper for ATI drivers (which could eventualy stir them towards the same direction as nVidia). It looks I was wrong. A pity. Regards, Vladimir
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