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From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
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To: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: NVidia glx drivers
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Glenn Johnson wrote:
> 
> Does any one know what the status is of getting the Nvidia Linux kernel
> module ported to FreeBSD?  I just checked the archives and there was
> discussion of it being possible and probably doable but that seems to be
> as far as it went.
> 
> As a related question, should I get a Matrox G400 in my new system
> as opposed to an Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS DDR based card?  I do not
> need glx yet but I anticipate wanting to use it in the very near
> future.  From what I can gather the Matrox G400 is supported either via
> utah-glx/XFree86-3 or XFree86-4.

I think I saw somewhere that there's an agp driver in the works that supposed to
somehow take care of this, but i haven't tried it and don't know anything about
it.

Good luck.
Brandon


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