From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 2: 8: 8 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 7A64337B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (CPE0030ab0ef2bb.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.103.202.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00F743E3B for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munish@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org) Received: by opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 39ACAE11; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 05:08:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 05:08:50 -0400 From: Munish Chopra To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020805090850.GC21053@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020805055547.69959.qmail@web20708.mail.yahoo.com> <1028535362.483.311.camel@anholt.dyndns.org> <20020805085951.GA13606@snark.rinet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020805085951.GA13606@snark.rinet.ru> 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 2002-08-05 12:59 +0000, Andrew Kolchoogin wrote: > 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. It's a good initiative, but it's a very very tough project for a number of reasons. More power to them if it gets going though. > > 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. > These rumours need to...well...die. They're working with us to a certain extent. Most of the problems arise from lawyers and suits that don't know how to handle collaboration with especially open source projects. Some of the guys inside NVIDIA have been very helpful. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message