Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:52:18 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvidia driver? Message-ID: <20110104225217.GA65512@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik8AeoG%2Bby77TLjMXipE-Xs%2B73x846csvCUTZy1@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> <AANLkTik8AeoG%2Bby77TLjMXipE-Xs%2B73x846csvCUTZy1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:34:35PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > 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. That is also because Nvidia is notorious for not releasing any documentation for any of their hardware, while ATI/AMD has provided lots of documentation for their chips. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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