Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:59:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Alp ATICI <atici@cpw.math.columbia.edu>, Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020805105729.V7662-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <1028528267.2325.45.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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> nvidia only support Windows and Linux at the moment. That might change, > but at the moment it equates to zero FreeBSD support. They plan for sure on supporting FreeBSD, and have hired engineers to do this. I have this word from an nvidia employee. I'd rather not mention his name because I'm not sure he'd like that. > ATI release their specs (well a lot of them) which facilitate the > writing of a driver for their cards. The DRI works very well with ATI > cards for FreeBSD, Linux, etc. > > I can't do 3d in FreeBSD with an nvidia card yet. > > > efficiency first. If I were to run linux, XFree86's support (via nv > > driver) would be worthless because I'd have an Nvidia card running > > perfectly on its linux nvidia driver. > > Except for the hangs.. > > You're welcome to split the XFree86 tree if you want, but I suspect that > isn't going to happen... > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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