From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 7:59:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A8B37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 07:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B52BA43E97 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 07:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from alpha.yumyumyum.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g75Ex6ga007718; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:59:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by alpha.yumyumyum.org (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g75Ex4v3007715; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:59:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) X-Authentication-Warning: alpha.yumyumyum.org: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:59:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Alp ATICI , Ed Yu , Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers In-Reply-To: <1028528267.2325.45.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: <20020805105729.V7662-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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