From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 8 14:57: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D2137B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:57:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6782C43E4A for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:57:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A39C8537C; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:56:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21C0537B; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:56:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:56:56 -0800 (PST) From: Linh Pham To: Arjan van Leeuwen Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia's FreeBSD drivers In-Reply-To: <200211082314.47355.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Message-ID: <20021108145209.Q53167-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-11-08, Arjan van Leeuwen scribbled: # nVidia released their closed-source, 3D accelerated FreeBSD drivers for all # GeForce chips yesterday (see www.nvidia.com). Isn't there something we can do # with this? Should I contact nVidia's PR department? It's a nice step ahead for FreeBSD and having a PR about it would be nice, but one thing that I would like to bring up to someone at nVidia is to break the "FreeBSD Drivers" link on their software/driver download page [http://nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp] out from under "For Linux Users:". -- Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message