Date: 11 Apr 2001 20:11:13 EST From: "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com> Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <200104120111.f3C1BEm31177@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> In-Reply-To: <3AD46C19.FC1AFB93@quake.com.au> References: <3AD427DC.CFC52BAE@quake.com.au> <004c01c0c26e$21b6e7c0$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> <3AD46C19.FC1AFB93@quake.com.au>
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Nvidia won't realease the source for one reason & one reason only. They license part of the technology off other vendors & are under NDI's with these vendors. Opening the source would be illegal for them to do. I as much as everyone else would love to get my nvidia card's working under FreeBSD. The only reason I run windows @ home is to play games & because my gf is yet to see the light. Cheers, Mark On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:37:13 +1000, Kal Torak said: > > > I have been looking into the situation with 3D Acceleration (eg. OpenGL) > > > with FreeBSD, the current state of things is pretty poor compared with > > > what linux now offers! > > > > I agree - maybe it's not that important if you're running a web server, but > > accelerated OpenGL is pretty useful. > > > > I am going to mail nVidia linux team and see if I can get them to ether > > release all the source or to make a port to FreeBSD... > > > > nVidia won't release source 8^( > > Yeah I wouldnt expect them to really, one can always dream :) > > So in that case we need to mail nVidia and request that they make > a port for there drivers to FreeBSD! > If enough of us mail them about it, surly they will take notice? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > -- Why not have an old-fashioned Christmas for your family this year? Just picture the scene in your living room on Christmas morning as your children open their old-fashioned presents. Your 11-year-old son: "What the heck is this?" You: "A spinning top! You spin it around, and then eventually it falls down. What fun! Ha, ha!" Son: "Is this a joke? Jason Thompson's parents got him a computer with two disk drives and 128 kilobytes of random-access memory, and I get this cretin TOP?" Your 8-year-old daughter: "You think that's bad? Look at this." You: "It's figgy pudding! What a treat!" Daughter: "It looks like goat barf." -- Dave Barry, "Simple, Homespun Gifts" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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