From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 22:19:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC27437B50C for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA40922; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200104120519.WAA40922@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) In-Reply-To: <20010412003746.A51230@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> from H at "Apr 12, 2001 00:37:47 am" To: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (H) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > scott@sawilson.org wrote: > > > What if someone were to set up a simple email cgi with a form > > letter in the nature of: > > Dear nVidia, > > snip -good letter proto deleted- Agreed, it was a good prototype, no negatives or bashes that I noticed, save those for latter. > > > Have them numbered in the subject so nVidia has an instant idea how > > many people are effected. It would be important that we don't sound > > like depraved zealots like some other operating system fans have in > > the past when doing a letter writing campaign. > > Interesting, has a letter writing campaign like this worked before for > graphics driver issues ? Is so we should go for it ! I am not quite sure of the details, but it was quite a pain for the XFree86 folks to ever get Matrox to work with them on drivers for thier cards. You might search thier archives, or ask them... And IIRC some form of consumer pressure was applied to Diamond to get them to release the details of certian special stuff that they had done on some of their cards having to do with special dot clock circuits... (After someone else did some reverse engineering IIRC again.) I do know that any manufacture can be made to bend or even totaly reverse a company policy if enough of the right type of pressure is applied. That leaves the question, are there enough of us that own nVida products to get them to listen. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message