From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 16:30:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from boromir.vpop.net (dns1.vpop.net [206.117.147.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4AB37B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mreimer@vpop.net) Received: from vpop.net ([209.102.16.48]) by boromir.vpop.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3BNUbn37010; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mreimer@vpop.net) Message-ID: <3AD4E929.99C40DC5@vpop.net> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:30:49 -0700 From: Matthew Reimer Organization: VPOP Technologies, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Tobin , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Xvideo support for GeForce2 and better was added into the XFree86 nv driver (not Nvidia's driver) just after XFree86 4.0.3. You'll have to build XFree from CVS to get these bits. Matt Richard Tobin wrote: > > > Before you lambast Nvidia for wanting to keep its IP > > under wraps, it appears that none of the other video card makers (ATI, > > Matrox) have handed over their "crown jewels" to Open Source developers. > > Nvidia is at least providing an optimised driver for its cards -- Matrox and > > ATI haven't > > So how come we haven't even got the XVideo extension available on > GeForce cards, unlike ATI and Matrox? Sounds fair to lambast NVidia > to me. > > -- Richard > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message