Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:03:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: cokane@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, mreimer@vpop.net, 3d@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, gplymale@zoomnet.net Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers Message-ID: <200104071303.f37D3ak02253@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20010407001754.C40343@cokane.yi.org>
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On 7 Apr, Coleman Kane wrote: > I'll clear this up. All the DRI drivers require one to load a > hardware-dependent driver into the kernel. Many vendors already have their > support in the XFree86 4.x tree. They are as follows (with module listed): > Matrox: mga > 3DFx: tdfx > 3DLabs: glint > ATI: r128 Thanks for the explanation. > NVidia decided they would have SGI help them make a module that totally > beat the other cards in performance under GNU/Linux. Unfortunately for > us, SGI refused to let NVidia release the source, and only released a > binary kernel object for linux. This module is in no way useable by the > FreeBSD kernel. There are some docs up on how to get the open source There's a posting in -current (Message-ID: <986515548.560.0.camel@moroni>) from George "D." Plymale. It's small, so I include it here: ---snip--- I was talking with some fellows who seemed rather confident that if a FBSD developer would port the rather small NVIDIA_kernel to FBSD that Nvidia would make their driver available for XF86 on FBSD. I'm personally not familiar with FBSD development, still with linux, but would love to switch over to FBSD, but this is very difficult until there are solid drivers for XF86 for the Nvidia boards, as I run an Elsa GeForce 2 Ultra and the current XF86 open drivers are flaky on my system. This was very exciting news to a would-be FBSD user! One of the persons also mentioned that it would be good to get BSDi involved as well. The source from which I gleaned this idea was from Open Projects IRC in channel #nvidia. Whoever starts working on this may be able to find help from the people there. It also may be possible to find people connected with Nvidia there. Here is a link to the current driver: ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/0.9-769/NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.tar.gz Hope this takes off! Thanks so much for the continued development of a great OS! ---snip--- Perhaps this motivates a kernel hacker to help NVidia. Bye, Alexander. -- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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