From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 26 16:59:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.232.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA2F37B8E1; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@prth.pgs.com) Received: from bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.1]) by bilby.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA09358; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:57:07 +0800 (WST) Received: from bleep.craftncomp.com (dialin20 [157.147.225.220]) by bandicoot.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA19851; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:59:18 +0800 (WST) Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (bloop.prth.tensor.pgs.com [202.12.111.1]) by bleep.craftncomp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA02134; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:58:42 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from shocking@prth.pgs.com) Received: from bloop.craftncomp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bloop.craftncomp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA15249; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:58:32 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from shocking@bloop.craftncomp.com) Message-Id: <200004262358.HAA15249@bloop.craftncomp.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: 3d@freebsd.org Cc: shocking@prth.pgs.com, dfr@nlsystems.com, cokane@one.net, multimedia@freebsd.org, shocking@ugly.prth.tensor.pgs.com Subject: Re: nvidia driver for XF86 4.0 (was: DRI on XF86 4.0) In-Reply-To: Message from Marc van Woerkom of "Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:56:41 +0200." <200004261756.TAA04350@oranje.my.domain> Reply-To: shocking@prth.pgs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:58:32 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I am in contact with nvidia about creating a FreeBSD kernel module, > they say it is not too difficult. Woo Hoo! Don't start me salivating like that! The kernel interfaces to their libraries didn't look too difficult, but I'd not used nm to find out what Linux kernel stuff the library was calling. > > > > There are supposedly some legal encumberances to be gotten rid of before > > they can fully open source them. > > Why do you think so? Have you seen some statement from them in that > direction? If yes, I would be interested to read it. I'm just repeating what someone on the Utah-GLX list said after contacting nVidia. Apparently a third part wrote much of the drivers and they're looking for a release from them. Stephen > -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message