Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:15:29 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>, Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104111614220.72136-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <3AD4AB28.EA342EC0@quake.com.au>
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > 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 :) Ya, but, the nVidia drivers supplied by the manufacturers are most likely under a very heavy NDA ... just look at the headaches that (god, I forget his name, sorry *sigh*) is going through with the whole Sun/JDK isue, and that is supposed to be "Open Source Software", no? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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