From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 2:53: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clueless.redbus.aaisp.net (clueless.redbus.aaisp.net [213.161.73.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB8BC37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 02:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@witchspace.com) Received: from zebedee.innovision-group.com (HELO:garfield.innovisiongroup.com) by clueless.redbus.aaisp.net for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:52:46 +0100 Message-ID: <004c01c0c26e$21b6e7c0$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> From: "Jonathan Belson" To: "Kal Torak" , "FreeBSD-stable" References: <3AD427DC.CFC52BAE@quake.com.au> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:59:40 +0100 Organization: Jon's Place MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiya > I have been looking into the situation with 3D Acceleration (eg. OpenGL) > with FreeBSD, the current state of things is pretty poor compared with > what linux now offers! I agree - maybe it's not that important if you're running a web server, but accelerated OpenGL is pretty useful. > We currently have Mesa and Glide 2 to support 3dfx cards (voodoo etc.) > which are no longer being produced since 3dfx has been bought out by > nVidia... There is Utah-GLX for the Rage cards... That leaves us with > nothing for nVidia cards, the current market leader in the 3D Acceleration > game!!! (nVidia are pretty much the only player right now) The TNT2 cards are supported, at least under X3. The Radeon should have support too AIR. > I am hoping to spark some interest in getting DRI ported to FreeBSD and even > better, to get the nVidia linux drivers ported... I am going to mail nVidia > linux team and see if I can get them to ether release all the source or to nVidia won't release source 8^( -- C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message