From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 8 16:20:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBB4B37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:20:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F048E43E75 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with SMTP id gA90KTmL094860; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:20:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 19:21:04 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Sam Pikesley Cc: avleeuwen@piwebs.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NVidia's FreeBSD drivers Message-Id: <20021108192104.0901e4b2.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021108235001.88685.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021108184212.361aeaaa.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20021108235001.88685.qmail@web14907.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not pointing a finger at you ;) Have no worries. Things like this are expected to happen. -- Tom Rhodes On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 23:50:01 +0000 (GMT) Sam Pikesley wrote: > Hey, I didn't mean to slate this stuff at all, I > wholeheartedly applaud nVidia's efforts, it's just > that my desktop suddenly started failing in new and > unexpected ways when xscreensaver kicked in... > > --- 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 wrote: > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message