Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:52:19 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative Message-ID: <012701c0d65d$ad7e1dc0$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <F81b6KZmcK8r6beUzmR00001666@hotmail.com>
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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" <messiah_man@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> 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
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