From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 12:15:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (mobile.acadiau.ca [131.162.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C131D37B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:15:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3BJFT070170; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:15:29 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:15:29 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Kal Torak Cc: Michael Nottebrock , Jonathan Belson , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) In-Reply-To: <3AD4AB28.EA342EC0@quake.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > > > ----- 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. > > 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