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From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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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.





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Erik Trulsson
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