From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 12 11:42:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.umd.edu (darkstar.umd.edu [128.8.215.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FF937B440 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.umd.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3CIf2b03714; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:41:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <3AD5F6BE.622E96FF@glue.umd.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:41:02 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scott@sawilson.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) References: <20010411220425.22581.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> 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: > Hello, > > I feel your pain, as I'm sure others do on the list. You aren't going to be satisfied with a "there is nothing we can do about this because" type answer. To you it sounds defeatist and like an excuse to do nothing. I agree. I have an idea I wanted to run by the list. > > What if someone were to set up a simple email cgi with a form letter in the nature of: I seem to remember that the last time this came up on -hackers somebody mentioned that nVidia already had someone working on FreeBSD drivers, but work was going slowly. I think they were also already coordinating with somebody on the FreeBSD team, don't remember who. It would probably be better to find out the status of the effort already underway, if there really is such an effort. -Brandon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message