From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 18:12:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FAB37B43E for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f3C1BEm31177; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:11:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104120111.f3C1BEm31177@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: Kal Torak , Jonathan Belson Cc: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.3 On freebsd/mysql Date: 11 Apr 2001 20:11:13 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <3AD46C19.FC1AFB93@quake.com.au> References: <3AD427DC.CFC52BAE@quake.com.au> <004c01c0c26e$21b6e7c0$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> <3AD46C19.FC1AFB93@quake.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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