Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:45:20 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVIDIA Geforce 2mx Message-ID: <3262504060.20010422124520@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <F807TWaZmhyk13kS715000105b2@hotmail.com> References: <F807TWaZmhyk13kS715000105b2@hotmail.com>
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Thursday, April 19, 2001, 6:19:36 AM, Munish Chopra wrote: MC> Concerning HARDWARE accelerated 3D support: MC> Yes, there is a petition. And no, I don't remember the link. MC> In September of 2000 there was a discussion (on freebsd-hackers ?) in which MC> Nick Triantos (I believe he is the head driver guy at NVIDIA) was involved. MC> Basically, he said that there were exactly three linux source files that MC> needed to be ported to FreeBSD (mostly a matter of OS hooks). MC> I mailed Nick Triantos a few days back, and once again got the response that MC> they're simply too busy right now. They would like to do a port, and they MC> will sometime in the future. He also said that he recently again had been MC> contacted by some FreeBSD people who wanted to get involved in the driver MC> port. I asked him for some e-mail addresses so I could contact them and MC> figure out where things are right now, but he hasn't answered yet. MC> So basically, they will come when NVIDIA's driver people have more time to MC> focus on ports to other platforms. But the above is more or less the jiffy MC> of what's been going on... MC> Regards, MC> --Munish Chopra You might get in touch with Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> as he seems to be heading an effort to do the same thing. There was a big discussion last week on -stable about this. -- Good Luck, -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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