Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 05:06:16 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <3AD4AB28.EA342EC0@quake.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104111145070.72136-100000@mobile.hub.org> <3AD48782.2CEAE87B@quake.com.au> <012401c0c2ad$d3d29d20$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org>
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Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kal Torak" <kaltorak@quake.com.au> > To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org> > Cc: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com>; "FreeBSD-stable" > <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> > 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. And yet DRI isnt yet fully working under FreeBSD... Not last I looked anyway! nVidia cards are currently the best... We need to have support for them! Apparently the BeOS drivers were made by a 3rd party, I dont know that for sure, but if they were... Why cant we make some for FreeBSD? Or if nVidia made them surly there would be enough people using FreeBSD that have nVidia based cards that they would make a port? I dont see why they wont make there drivers open source... They must provide the win32 source to the card manufacturers, since nVidia based cards often come with drivers supplied by the company... Anyway, whatever the case we need those drivers for FreeBSD :) We must not rest until we have them! Why should only linux be able to play all those great games in OpenGL? Why should we be stuck with having to use low end accelerator cards? We shouldnt! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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