Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:14:48 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: mmuir@es.co.nz Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: agp and 3dfx Message-ID: <C1256928.0048C54A.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr>
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Hello,
I've had a quick look at NVidia's "src-rpm" for its driver under Linux, and I've been
very disappointed to see that the main parts of this driver are 3 binary object files
for which there is no source.
This inhibits porting by people from the FreeBSD projects - and it's sad,
considering my owning of a TNT2 ...
TfH
Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz> on 25/07/2000 19:44:51
Please respond to mmuir@es.co.nz
To: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>,
freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL)
Subject: Re: agp and 3dfx
Coleman Kane wrote:
>
> XFree86-4 has been updated to the newest version. It has a kld named
> tdfx.ko that must be installed into /modules/. When you load X, it will
> load dri, agp, and tdfx all for you. There is also a 3dfx.ko to work
> with /dev/3dfx. This is provided to support device accesses for glide
> programs, like quake3 and all. It currently has some issues with the
> Voodoo3 and Banshee hardware, but I could use another tester. It is part
> of -CURRENT, and will most likely panic your box, but some output sent
> to me about the crash would be helpful. Actually, if anyone has an old
> agp 3dfx card they'dl ike to donate for this development, it would be
> helpful. I have been testing it with my voodoo2 board with much success,
> but I have had some responses from users with Voodoo3's that say that
> they haven't gotten it to work.
What about Nvidia's 5.xx linux driver effort... what kind of effort
would be required to get that running on FreeBSD?
-mike
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