From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 13 23:52:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au (echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au [139.230.33.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BCC37B825; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 23:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au) Received: from student.cowan.edu.au ([139.230.242.63]) by echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA6271512; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:58:03 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <39472BEE.D8D210B@student.cowan.edu.au> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:53:34 +0800 From: Trent Nelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVIDIA Drivers for XF4 References: <3946FB0C.E87BEB11@glue.umd.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brandon Fosdick wrote: > > Does anybody have the new nvidia drivers working yet? Aparently I'm not > as smart as I thought. :) From what I've been told - FreeBSD's kernel is unable to run Linux's kernel modules. Hence, the source provided by nVIDIA for the kernel module needs to be ported to FreeBSD. For those that aren't aware, there are two tarballs available: the Linux kernel module source and (Linux) object files for what I'm assuming is the XFree86 4.0 OpenGL/DRI driver. What's porting going to involve? I can't see porting the kernel module being *too* difficult (I'd love to start on something after exams) - but I don't know how the Linux object files for the XFree86 interface are going to be dealt with (Linux developer port?). I'm sure I'm not the only TNT (and above) owner that's eager to get Quake3 running in XFree86 4.0. > -Brandon Regards, Trent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message