Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 22:34:35 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia driver? Message-ID: <AANLkTik8AeoG%2Bby77TLjMXipE-Xs%2B73x846csvCUTZy1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinTs2hPwXA18qi0NJOXXw6JTF25zHPu0-Wfhjo8@mail.gmail.com> References: <iftucp$rrv$1@dough.gmane.org> <AANLkTim4ggXq%2BF2uunNLZoWBZCrGMZOF0MuT46ZeuJKJ@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=pDhG=ZQUa39wRpc5Kw_KDhZKpk-jZyyhH9-S2@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinTs2hPwXA18qi0NJOXXw6JTF25zHPu0-Wfhjo8@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4 January 2011 21:29, George Liaskos <geo.liaskos@gmail.com> wrote: > Who works for those opensource drivers to become better on freebsd, i > am all for donating. Most open source X11 drivers are (luckily) developed the same for Linux and FreeBSD: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ AFAIK the Open source effort for nvidia drivers is not very popular (develops even more slowly than for ATI cards) because the binary drivers work good enough for most users. It's a very sorry situation. It gets even more complicated every couple of years when the Linux guys introduce "revolutionary" technology which breaks compatibility with everything else (and other OSes). In the recent years there have been several "innovations" which fragment the whole situation into oblivion: * Abandoning HAL : http://www.x.org/wiki/Other/Press/X11R76Released * GEM : http://lwn.net/Articles/283798/ * Gallium3D : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gallium * Kernel mode setting : http://www.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting Most of these are well intended and good in long term but for now, the situation with X.Org drivers looks like an uncoordinated mess.
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