Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:02:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia TNT2 Driver Installation Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203280900460.12247-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <3CA318F4.D0129817@wi.rr.com>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > John Bleichert wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 07:11:09 -0600 > > > From: Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> > > > To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > > Subject: NVidia TNT2 Driver Installation > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > Has anyone downloaded and successfully installed the new > > > driivers for the AGP NVidia RivaTNT2 32MB graphics board? > > > > > > > I don't think the nVidia drivers work in FreeBSD, although they work > > wonderfully in Linux. If anybody here says they work in FBSD I just might > > hafta take the rest of the day off, go home, and break out Rune ... > > > > ;-) > > > > |-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| > > |-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Well, that just tops it all! My ogle DVD playback is choppy! I got a TNT2 > 32MB > and it is nasty! What's up? > The nVidia drivers are closed-source and available for Linux only, therefore, no-one has been able to build them for FreeBSD. Without hardware acceleration IMHO your DVD playback *will* be choppy, unless you have a 1.5+ GHz CPU. |-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| |-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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