From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 18:27:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7045737B43E for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:27:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from rushlight.rem.cmu.edu (ANNEX-4.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.4]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f3C1Qbr27956; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:26:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:26:36 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: scott@sawilson.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <105060000.987038796@rushlight.rem.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010411220425.22581.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 15:04:25 -0700, scott@sawilson.org wrote: +---- | On Wed, 11 April 2001, Kal Torak wrote: | | > | > Michael Nottebrock wrote: | > > | > > ----- Original Message ----- | > > From: "Kal Torak" | > > To: "The Hermit Hacker" | > > Cc: "Jonathan Belson" ; "FreeBSD-stable" | > > | > > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:34 PM | > > Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) | > > | > > > [...] | > > > nVidia cards are really the ONLY choice to buy now... Not that Im | > > complaining, | > > > they are good cards, we just need some support for the more recent | > > ones! | --snip-- | | Hello, | | I feel your pain, as I'm sure others do on the list. You aren't | going to be satisfied with a "there is nothing we can do about | this because" type answer. To you it sounds defeatist and like an | excuse to do nothing. I agree. I have an idea I wanted to run by | the list. | | What if someone were to set up a simple email cgi with a form | letter in the nature of: +--->8 My gut feeling is that form letters --- and especially form *email* --- aren't perceived as being worth much; people sending in their own letters with their own choice of wording, and preferably *paper* letters, will make more of an impact. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message