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Subject: Re: NVIDIA Geforce 2mx
From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com>
To: Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com>,
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Thanks that's a really good update!

Dave
On 19 Apr 2001 12:19:36 +0200, Munish Chopra wrote:
> Concerning HARDWARE accelerated 3D support:
> 
> Yes, there is a petition. And no, I don't remember the link.
> 
> In September of 2000 there was a discussion (on freebsd-hackers ?) in which 
> Nick Triantos (I believe he is the head driver guy at NVIDIA) was involved. 
> Basically, he said that there were exactly three linux source files that 
> needed to be ported to FreeBSD (mostly a matter of OS hooks).
> 
> I mailed Nick Triantos a few days back, and once again got the response that 
> they're simply too busy right now. They would like to do a port, and they 
> will sometime in the future. He also said that he recently again had been 
> contacted by some FreeBSD people who wanted to get involved in the driver 
> port. I asked him for some e-mail addresses so I could contact them and 
> figure out where things are right now, but he hasn't answered yet.
> 
> So basically, they will come when NVIDIA's driver people have more time to 
> focus on ports to other platforms. But the above is more or less the jiffy 
> of what's been going on...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --Munish Chopra
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