From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jun 11 11:44: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3784737B403 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:43:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5BIht2A070724; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:43:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Jason Andresen Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of NV drivers? In-Reply-To: <3D061078.F3FD7563@mitre.org> Message-ID: <20020611144018.K42854-100000@sasami.jurai.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 They have out of date or no actual code.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