From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 1:59:56 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 83B5B37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snark.rinet.ru (snark.rinet.ru [195.54.192.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F46F43E6A for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 01:59:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@snark.rinet.ru) Received: from snark.rinet.ru (andrew@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snark.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g758xprP014186 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:59:51 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from andrew@snark.rinet.ru) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by snark.rinet.ru (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g758xpv3014185 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:59:51 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:59:51 +0400 From: Andrew Kolchoogin To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020805085951.GA13606@snark.rinet.ru> References: <20020805055547.69959.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> <1028535362.483.311.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1028535362.483.311.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Guys, yet another point. We should consider that many people already HAS some kind of NVidia hardware and doesn't plan to change their well-tested video card. As such, all discussions about ATI c00lness are pretty good but fairly useless -- I have 45 machines with NVidia Riva TNT2 and doesn't plan to upgrade/change my hardware. I think that developing DRI-compatible (or even compatible with itself throught wall outlet) driver for NVidia video cards is very good initiative. Although reverse engeneering (thing that this thread has begun from) is very complicated and time-consuming process, if NVidia doesn't wish to collaborate with software developers, it should be done. Am I right? Or not? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message