Date: 05 Aug 2002 15:47:46 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Alp ATICI <atici@cpw.math.columbia.edu> Cc: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <1028528267.2325.45.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208050157420.15528-100000@cpw.math.columbia.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208050157420.15528-100000@cpw.math.columbia.edu>
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On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 15:38, Alp ATICI wrote: > No AFAIK there's nothing like ATI driver. It's just that XFree86 > supports it. Only in 2D. I don't know of a ATI FreeBSD or linux > driver otherwise. Whatever ATI said on their website is principlewise > I guess. How helpful they're actually about the open source driver is > another issue. I think NVidia is much more professional when it comes > to software support. ?! nvidia only support Windows and Linux at the moment. That might change, but at the moment it equates to zero FreeBSD support. ATI release their specs (well a lot of them) which facilitate the writing of a driver for their cards. The DRI works very well with ATI cards for FreeBSD, Linux, etc. I can't do 3d in FreeBSD with an nvidia card yet. > efficiency first. If I were to run linux, XFree86's support (via nv > driver) would be worthless because I'd have an Nvidia card running > perfectly on its linux nvidia driver. Except for the hangs.. You're welcome to split the XFree86 tree if you want, but I suspect that isn't going to happen... -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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