From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 7:48:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (mobile.acadiau.ca [131.162.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389BC37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3BEm5r68019; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:48:06 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:48:05 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Kal Torak Cc: Jonathan Belson , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) In-Reply-To: <3AD46C19.FC1AFB93@quake.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG NVidia cards are all I buy now, have 3 or 4 right now ... don't the cards have some sort of serial number? is there any way of using that to provide a pseudo-petition list ... maybe our new benefactors could talk to NVidia themselves, get nVidia to setup a nonline 'registration form' that we could all connect to and submit our serial numbers, to give them a feel for number of FreeBSD'rs out here? On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I am going to mail nVidia linux team and see if I can get them to ether > > release all the source or to make a port to FreeBSD... > > > > nVidia won't release source 8^( > > Yeah I wouldnt expect them to really, one can always dream :) > > So in that case we need to mail nVidia and request that they make > a port for there drivers to FreeBSD! > If enough of us mail them about it, surly they will take notice? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message