From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 10:28:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B3E37B424 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:28:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaronm@orem.verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69F43BF160 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:28:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (aaronm@localhost) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3BHSWd79964; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:28:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from aaronm@mx.dmz.orem.verio.net) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:28:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Aaron Mildenstein To: Kal Torak Cc: The Hermit Hacker , Jonathan Belson , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) In-Reply-To: <3AD48782.2CEAE87B@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 I believe that the nVidia for BeOS drivers were written by a 3rd party individual and not by nVidia themselves. buh On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > 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? > > nVidia cards are really the ONLY choice to buy now... Not that Im complaining, > they are good cards, we just need some support for the more recent ones! > Since I cant find anything for the GeForce line... Let alone GeForce2, and the > GeForce3 series (are they going to call it that?) will be on sale soon... > > If there is enough interest from us they should be willing to make ports to > FreeBSD.. I mean they support BeOS, how many people even use that, let alone > have nVidia cards? Surly we could match them in numbers! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message