Date: 19 Apr 2001 08:53:58 -0500 From: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@MPI-Softtech.Com> To: Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA Geforce 2mx Message-ID: <987688439.855.1.camel@mpi-plusplus.mpi-softtech.com> In-Reply-To: <F807TWaZmhyk13kS715000105b2@hotmail.com> References: <F807TWaZmhyk13kS715000105b2@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 > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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