From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 9 15:34:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Stalker.alfacom.net (Stalker.Alfacom.net [193.108.124.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0098737B405 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 15:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from kushnir1.kiev.ua (dup-124-68.Alfacom.net [193.108.124.68]) by Stalker.alfacom.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id fA9NXdeL017903; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:33:49 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (volodya@localhost) by kushnir1.kiev.ua (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA9NW3M01864; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:32:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from vkushnir@Alfacom.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kushnir1.kiev.ua: volodya owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:31:46 +0200 (EET) From: Vladimir Kushnir X-X-Sender: To: "Kevin D.Wooten" Cc: Subject: Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <01110901202702.01161@newton.cevio.com> Message-ID: <20011110012530.X1841-100000@kushnir1.kiev.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Kevin D.Wooten wrote: > > > > i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules, > > again)? > > > I was under the impression that the subsystem is there ( /usr/src/sys/dev/fb > ? ). Maybe not the specific accelerated drivers, but the basics look there. > I will say the video mode selection looks weak though, Linux does have a much > more flexible mode selection. > > P.S. - I have been trying to get NVidia docs ( I have to sign an NDA ) to > build a GeForce3 framebuffer. > Actually, rivafb under Linux provides some HW acceleration (based on utah-glx code, I think). There's no GeForce3 there, though. -- Vladimir Kushnir - vkushnir@Alfacom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message