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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:58:03 +0200
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject:   Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?
Message-ID:  <20080620075803.GA12112@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <485AD16C.4000807@telenix.org>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <zbeeble@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit
> >>> FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (preferably
> >>> PCI-E) card with 3D acceleration?
> >> I'd love to be told I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the issues
> >> blocking the nvidia driver would also effectively block a driver for which
> >> we had the source.
> > 
> > Is there an open source driver with good 3D acceleration?
> > 
> >    <mike
> 
> Could I ask, does anyone here know the reason (even in general) that the Nvidia
> driver isn't working on the i386?
> 
> I mean, I was wondering what might be my next project ... I have the machinery,
> and the source code is totally available, it's not a matter of Nvidia giving out
> a binary-only module, right?  So, is anything more known?

you might want to port nouveau (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/) to FreeBSD.

that would be a great thing to have



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