From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 11:36:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3412E37BA79 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@mail.yourfit.com) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA24681 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:36:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:36:41 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: agp and 3dfx In-Reply-To: <397F1CE9.1CC0C1E2@es.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Mike Muir wrote: > Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > > > I've had a quick look at NVidia's "src-rpm" for its driver under > > Linux, and I've been very disappointed to see that the main parts > > of this driver are 3 binary object files for which there is no > > source. > > > > This inhibits porting by people from the FreeBSD projects - and > > it's sad, considering my owning of a TNT2 ... > > I'm not sure if you saw my posting to question@freebsd.org but with > the announcement of A|W porting Maya v3.0 to Linux, and the expected > slew of related applications that will follow, we need the driver > support from Nvidia ESPECIALLY when considering their recent push > towards workstation solutions (quadro2 line.) Are there many high > end cards which require more than an Xserver and/or driver which may > already be available? (ala nvidia) The new ATI Radeon must not be overlooked, nor should the Voodoo5. Many of the people who are doing the most serious graphics work will be using one of those two cards. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message