From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 12 17:20:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4970D37B446 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from webmail.bmi.net (dsl-154.bmi.net [207.173.60.230]) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA16883 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:20:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3AD6465B.61BAAF49@webmail.bmi.net> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:20:43 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en-US, en, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-STABLE@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Games on FreeBSD References: <200104120134.UAA20957@freebsd.netcom.com> <3AD52A10.7997F8EA@quake.com.au> <20010411233302.A8789@cec.wustl.edu> <3AD53763.B2B2B38A@quake.com.au> <20010412000948.C8789@cec.wustl.edu> <20010412191629.C1312@laptop.os2warp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Lambert wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:09:48AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > > > > Has anybody offered to sign an NDA with nVidia to write a binary-only > > driver for FreeBSD? Everybody should ask around amongst all the good > > FreeBSD hackers, to see if one of them would be willing to do so. > > Or go talk to SciTech Software. They are in the business of writing video > drivers for other people's hardware. They work really well on OS/2. > > They have a project to build drivers for XF86 for Linux. It is pay-ware > but worth it. I have four copies for my OS/2 boxes. > > Scott > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Yes, they'd be willing to do it (I almost sure), but they have the same problem--nVidia won't release the tech specs for the chips for love, money, or an ND. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message