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From: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>,
	Sam Pikesley <samdavidpikesley@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: NVidia's FreeBSD drivers
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 00:53:43 +0100
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Word is that they work on -CURRENT too :), no need to install 4.7.=20

Arjan

On Saturday 09 November 2002 00:42, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> Many people also need to take the fact that several 'generic' cards
> often have the Nvidia chip on them.  So these drivers may not work
> in all situations, it is something we need to take into account.
>
> So far i've heard 2 good and 1 semi-negative.  Perhaps sometime this
> week I'll throw an Nvidia card into a machine and intall 4.7 &&
> the drivers.
>
> In the meantime, I'll most likely put a 'news flash' Nvidia releases
> FreeBSD drivers for their video chipsets/cards.
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:19:43 +0000 (GMT)
>
> Sam Pikesley <samdavidpikesley@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I spent much of this afternoon installing and
> > configuring these drivers. Be warned: they are VERY
> > beta...
> >
> > --- Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> wrote: >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > > nVidia released their closed-source, 3D accelerated
> > > FreeBSD drivers for all
> > > GeForce chips yesterday (see www.nvidia.com). Isn't
> > > there something we can do
> > > with this? Should I contact nVidia's PR department?
> > >
> > > Arjan
> > >
> > >
> > >
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