From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 6 11:51:50 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 0681237B401 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (CPE0030ab0ef2bb.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.103.202.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE8F43E65 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munish@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org) Received: from opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (munish@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (8.12.2/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g76IqQbl033710 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:52:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from munish@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org) Received: (from munish@localhost) by opiate.thirteenandtwo.org (8.12.2/8.12.5/Submit) id g76IqQZH033709 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:52:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:52:26 -0400 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020806185226.GB31673@opiate.thirteenandtwo.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020806105038.GA674@tombstone.gomerbud.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020806105038.GA674@tombstone.gomerbud.com> 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 On 2002-08-06 03:50 +0000, David P. Reese Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:30:47 -0700, Bill Huey wrote > >I understand somebody has got the 2d side of this working in FreeBSD, > >but the 3d stuff crashes still. > > The 2d stuff works great on my geforce2. The best part is the XVideo > extensions. My last card was a Voodoo3 2000. I cant even begin to tell > you how much better DVD's play with this card. The drivers are availible > at > > ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/ > > Support for 3d is still a bit off, but Matt seems to be optomistic due to > his recent news post at > > http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html > > True 3d support is exciting. Using the provided drivers from nVidia (hacked > to hell, of course), you should get true OpenGL 1.3 support. Thanks SGI. > If you think SGI has much to do with us getting OpenGL, you're wrong. (they indirectly could have, but things got blocked by other parties). > The current drivers are based off of rather old linux drivers. I think they > are from the beginning of the year. No support for the geforce4 yet, but > the fact that 2d works and seems to work well leads me to believe that > the number of people using nvidia cards under FreeBSD should be increasing. > A larger user base means that nvidia should be willing to pay more attention > to us. The drivers are old because things have pretty much been left to NVIDIA for a while. We (and especially Matthew) have done what we could, it's their turn now. NVIDIA paying attention will only happen if the lawyers/suits see $$$ in FreeBSD. Good luck. Our user base is a joke compared to Windows/Linux/Mac. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message