From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 16: 5:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ghostwheel.tribble.net (ghostwheel.tribble.net [206.124.26.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3112837B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:05:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tribble@ghostwheel.tribble.net) Received: (from tribble@localhost) by ghostwheel.tribble.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3BN5JB28912; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:05:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from tribble) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:05:19 -0600 From: Paul To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <20010411170519.B28596@tribble.net> References: <3AD46C19.FC1AFB93@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:48:05AM -0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:48:05AM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > NVidia cards are all I buy now, have 3 or 4 right now ... don't the cards > have some sort of serial number? is there any way of using that to > provide a pseudo-petition list ... maybe our new benefactors could talk to > NVidia themselves, get nVidia to setup a nonline 'registration form' that > we could all connect to and submit our serial numbers, to give them a feel > for number of FreeBSD'rs out here? If nvidia is unwilling, then we could designate someone the "keeper of the petition", and have everyone submit their serials to their server through a (lynx-friendly, perhaps?) web form of some sort. Once we've collected what we feel is a good amount, we could mail the whole damn list to nVidia... and see if they respond favorably. Regards, Paul http://www.tribble.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message