From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Apr 3 10: 7:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [194.97.50.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDE537B71A; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:07:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netchild@leidinger.net) Received: from [194.97.50.138] (helo=mx0.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14kUHT-0001Ja-00; Tue, 03 Apr 2001 19:07:47 +0200 Received: from a3b42.pppool.de ([213.6.59.66] helo=Magelan.Leidinger.net) by mx0.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14kUHT-000609-00; Tue, 03 Apr 2001 19:07:47 +0200 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f33F9Nm03019; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:09:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200104031509.f33F9Nm03019@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 17:09:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers To: 3d@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mreimer@vpop.net, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010402173832.C926C37B71C@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2 Apr, Marc van Woerkom wrote: >> I think that wouldn't help any -- nvidia_drv.o needs the kernel module >> to communicate with the card. > > A Linux X server running under FreeBSD Linuxulater would of course > have no trouble talking to a Linux kernel module - or? > I rather think that the Linux emulation is possibly not > complete enough. (for example I have no clue how to introduce > the /dev/nvida driver here) Have you tried to use the OS independend XF86 module? If I remember correctly, the kernel module from NVidia is only to speed up DMA operations in 3D mode, so the XF86 module should at least be usable. I didn't know how much of speed you lose, but at least you should be able to see something. Can you give it a try and report here? Bye, Alexander. -- The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message