Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of NV drivers? Message-ID: <20020611144018.K42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <3D061078.F3FD7563@mitre.org>
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On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Jason Andresen wrote: > I've been looking around for a card with decent 3d to replace my > aging G200 and I've considered various NVidia cards. The problem > is that all of the websites for FreeBSD on NV seem to have 3 > common properties: > > 1. They apparently havn't been touched in months. There hasn't been anything to do in months. > 2. They claim 3D support "soon". We only know as much as NVIDIA tells us. > 3. They have out of date or no actual code. All the code I've found is > for patching old (sometimes a couple of revisions) Linux drivers. Incorrect. A custom FreeBSD build was provided by NVIDIA; its not as recent as the linux or windows detonator drivers however. > Patching the Linux drivers seems like a viable solution, but has this > project died or is there some other secret website/mailing list > somewhere where activity still flourishes? Everything but GL works fine; how much more activity do you need? > I've considered getting an ATI card instead, but I've been constantly > disappointed with their Windows drivers (this is a dual boot machine). > After being burned a few times I'm a little hesitant to go for the > ATI solution. Since the drivers at ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/ don't support any of the GeForce 4 line you may be better off with ATI. The XFree86-4 'nv' driver from CVS might support the GF-4. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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