From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 4 23:17:59 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 AB83337B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D7D343E5E for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g756HjZL016570; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:47:46 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alp ATICI Cc: Ed Yu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 05 Aug 2002 15:47:46 +0930 Message-Id: <1028528267.2325.45.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 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