From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 10:35:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3690637B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 1234 invoked by uid 0); 11 Apr 2001 17:35:39 -0000 Received: from pd950a3a5.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO lofizwei) (217.80.163.165) by mail.gmx.net (mp027-rz3) with SMTP; 11 Apr 2001 17:35:39 -0000 Message-ID: <012401c0c2ad$d3d29d20$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> From: "Michael Nottebrock" To: "Kal Torak" , "The Hermit Hacker" Cc: "Jonathan Belson" , "FreeBSD-stable" References: <3AD48782.2CEAE87B@quake.com.au> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:35:38 +0200 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kal Torak" To: "The Hermit Hacker" Cc: "Jonathan Belson" ; "FreeBSD-stable" Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:34 PM Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) > [...] > 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! nVidia won't release the source code nor let people outside nVidia work freely on hardware accelerated OpenGL drivers, so the cards of choice for FreeBSD systems probably are ATi Rage 128, ATi Radeon, Matrox G4x0 or Intel based cards since those manufacturers have laid the development of non-windows accelerated drives completely into the hands of the DRI team (by contracting VA Linux systems, formerly known as Precision Insight). Ofcourse, the DRI team is developing the kernel modules for Linux, but at least, the modules are open source, which makes them portable. Greetings, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message