From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jun 27 3:27:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from walter.dfmm.org (walter.dfmm.org [209.151.233.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8729F37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 96412 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Jun 2002 10:27:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 10:27:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:27:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Stone X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Nvidia drivers status Message-ID: <20020627031039.Q5916-100000@walter> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to understand the current state of Nvidia driver support under FreeBSD. This is my current understanding - please confirm or deny: 1) XFree86 "nv" driver - all nvidia cards, no 3d? 2) David Rufino's "nvidia" driver - a wrapper for the linux binaries? no 3d 3) Matthew Dodd's (native?) "nvidia" driver - no 3d 4) Nvidia's supported native FreeBSD driver - yes 3d, but doesn't exist What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these? If the XFree86 driver supports my card, and none of the existing drivers does 3d, what is the advantage of the other two drivers? As a side question, how does/will 3d support work from an application or API perspective? If I have an application that uses OpenGL and links against Mesa, does Mesa check and see if the Xserver supports GL, and if so, passes the GL calls straight through to X, and if the server doesn't support GL, Mesa "emulates" it? I have no idea if that's even close, but I was just wondering about it, and that's the first thing that came to mind.... Thanks for any help you can give. -Jason ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: See https://private.idealab.com/public/jason/jason.gpg iD8DBQE9GuiiswXMWWtptckRAuYDAKDFJ2LEOOdCkiO1HrSwUgonF0XyzACg9+8g cbkm86ZIYjlYl7zipgaGRLw= =J5dY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message