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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:19:27 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com>
Cc:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Subject:   Re: linux 3d applications keep crashing
Message-ID:  <1237061967.1809.5.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 13:08 +0100, Michal Varga wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> wr=
ote:
> > 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=3D2.6.16", because otherwise the statement
> doesn't make any sense. nvidia-drivers work perfectly well with
> compat.linux.osrelease=3D2.4.2 (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).
>=20
> 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*..
>=20
>=20
> > 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.

I'll take that bet... I have 2d and Xv running now.

robert.

> m.
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