Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:46:25 -0700 From: Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: 3d@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers Message-ID: <3ACA0C71.CD7A25FD@vpop.net> References: <200104031509.f33F9Nm03019@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > 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? The nvidia driver that's part of XF86 4.0.x (nv_drv.o) works fine for 2D, but it doesn't do 3D/DRI/Xv. The only way to get hardware acceleration is to use utah-glx with XF 3.3.6, or to use nvidia_drv.o (not nv_drv.o) + nvidia's kernel module. Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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