Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:35:57 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Thorbj=F6rn_Axelsson?= <smurf@salmiak.hemmet.chalmers.se> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: <scott@sawilson.org>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104120127010.3179-100000@salmiak.hemmet.chalmers.se> In-Reply-To: <3AD4D8DA.77E28CB6@quake.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > Well Im all for it! > > Its a lot better than sitting back and saying, oh they wont give > us the source, they wont give us the technical specs, they are nasty > people etc, etc, etc. :) <snip> FYI, I'm pretty sure that there is some kind of petition you can sign on some webpage on the internet. I know I signed something. You might want to look for it (no idea where it is). I would be very happy about any support for nVidia cards on FreeBSD, as it is now I run my desktop-machine with Linux to be able to get the full hardware acceleration (both 2d and 3d works really smooth). Of course I run FreeBSD on my servers still :) And the reason that NVidia does not release the full source is that they have licenced some of the code and they can not legally open source it since they do not own it. [disclaimer: I haven't reviewed this to closely] There shouldn't really be a problem here since the [linux] kernel-module is opensourced but not the real driver. I believe that the kernel-module could be rewritten and use linux emulation provided by FreeBSD for the rest. Maybe :) /Thorbj=F6rn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.31.0104120127010.3179-100000>