From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 6 11:52:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.net (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC9337B422 for ; Sun, 6 May 2001 11:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwcjr@inethouston.net) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702E610F40F; Sun, 6 May 2001 13:52:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <012701c0d65d$ad7e1dc0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: "Munish Chopra" , References: Subject: Re: The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:52:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think you're a little late, check out http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/fbsd-nvdriver/ I'd hate to see the two teams work alone and make two separate drivers than together and one better driver. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Munish Chopra" To: Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 8:04 AM Subject: The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative > If the following isn't an appropriate subject for discussion on this > particular mailing list, please move ensuing discussion to one that is more > appropriate (possibly -hackers or -hardware). > > We are a simply a few guys who at more or less the same time got tired of > not having 3D-support for our NVIDIA cards in FreeBSD. So we decided to > start 'The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative'. As the name may say, we tried > to figure out how we were going to get hardware accelerated 3D drivers for > FreeBSD. After going through a bit of work and contacting NVIDIA, it's come > to this: > > We are located at http://nvidia.netexplorer.org, from where we try to keep > people updated on how the effort is going. We have taken over Michael > Carlson's petition for drivers (some of you may remember it from when it was > started back in January), and if you haven't signed it yet, please come on > over and do. There IS currently a team working on the drivers (not NVIDIA > itself, but some people who are getting a bit of help from NVIDIA at least). > We will keep you updated on how things go. > > For those of you wondering about the legal issues, they DID come up, and > have been successfully resolved. Please drop by the site to sign the > petition and check on how things are going. > > Cheers, > Munish Chopra > The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message