From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 8:35:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B74E437B421 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 08:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 7966 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2002 16:31:43 -0000 Received: from dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net (66.92.171.91) by dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net with SMTP; 28 Mar 2002 16:31:43 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:31:43 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: John Bleichert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVidia TNT2 Driver Installation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020328113021.S7758-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. on my GeForce2 MX XFree86 supports xvideo, which makes DVD's play fine. The drivers are linux only right now, but there is a working port to FreeBSD that works for 2d and Xvideo. 3d is on the way right now and I've even been able to start an OpenGL app and have it display to the screen for like 5 seconds before the Xserver hangs. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message