From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 11:36:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2062537B422 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from tbird-850-win2k ([66.26.225.2]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:43:17 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:45:20 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <3262504060.20010422124520@nc.rr.com> To: "Munish Chopra" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVIDIA Geforce 2mx In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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