From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 14 13:19:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE11106564A for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:19:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-out1.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-OUT1.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017B08FC1B for ; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:19:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,362,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="270020958" Received: from zivmaildisp2.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER05.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.143]) by zivm-relay1.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 14 Mar 2009 14:19:19 +0100 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER05.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id B0DFB1B07E2; Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:19:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:19:19 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0903140508sda8af37i83fdb0fb7ee1f792@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Michal Varga Subject: Re: linux 3d applications keep crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:19:21 -0000 exactly! the linux compatibility libraries that get installed are the very same ones that get installed under linux. since the drivers work perfectly under linux the problem running linux 3d apps under freebsd can 100% be blamed on the linuxulator. right now i'm switching back to the linux_base-fc4 to see if it works under CURRENT, but i very much doubt it. cheers. Michal Varga schrieb am 2009-03-14: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Roman Divacky > wrote: > > from my experience the nvidia driver does not work at all.. it used > > to work > > in 6.x times with linuxulator but recently all I got from it was > > panic > > or deadlock (depending on weather) > Doesn't work at all.. when? I guess you meant that "linux OpenGL > portion of nvidia-driver doesn't work with > compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16", because otherwise the statement > doesn't make any sense. nvidia-drivers work perfectly well with > compat.linux.osrelease=2.4.2 (maybe not with some very recent > -CURRENT, haven't been checking for a while, but that's not the point > anyway) and actually are the only way to get any serious 3d gaming > done on FreeBSD, and I'm not even starting with OpenGL apps like > Blender (ATI users know what I'm pointing to). > This is a clear bug in 2.6 linuxulator - the OpenGL works properly in > Linux 2.4/2.6 (well, that's kinda expected), it works properly in 2.4 > linuxulator, it breaks with 2.6 linuxulator. I think it's hard to > call > that "nvidia driver doesn't work at all", but maybe I just missed the > point somewhere and earned a *whoosh*.. > > there's an ongoing work on nouveau, so stay tuned :) > Yes, that will take many years to complete, or at least, produce a > rotating cube or maybe, maybe run glxgears in around 2012. > m.