From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 11 9: 3:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CA337B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:03:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA48252; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:02:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3AABAFA8.D863E536@herbelot.com> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:02:32 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Dokuchaev Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm quite interested in having true 3D hardware acceleration on my ASUS > AGP-V3800Magic video card based on TNT2 M64 chip, while running > XFree86-4.0.2 on FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE. > Me too 3D acceleration (or the lack thereof) is supposed to be one of the reasons why XFree 336 is still the standard version delivered for FreeBSD. I have not searched exactly how it is possible to have glx acceleration with 336 and NVidia boards, but Iwould be intersted to know if some how-to existed (I've switched to 4.0.x as this should have been the way to DRI and fully-supported, OS-independant, 3D acceleration) nevertheless, the NVidia "Linux kernel module" seems to be a encapsulation of their Win$$ driver, so as to be usable under Linux. Maybe the careful study of the source included in the "kernel module" can give some hints on how to do the same kind of wrapper for FreeBSD good luck -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message