From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 18:51: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F7337B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail7.new.rr.com (fe7.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.162.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6192343E42 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com ([24.208.57.240]) by mail7.new.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:47:02 -0500 Received: from 172.16.1.33 (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by babylon.polands.org with HTTP; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:51:01 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <1112.172.16.1.33.1030499461.squirrel@babylon.polands.org> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:51:01 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2, FreeBSD -STABLE, drivers and capabilities From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <200208280300.59677.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <20020827164253.A17125@polands.org> <200208280300.59677.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arjan van Leeuwen said: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 23:42, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How does one find out if there is an XFree86/FreeBSD driver for a >> given video adapter and which features are supported (2d vs. 3d, >> accelerated vs. unaccellerated)? >> > 2D accelerated. > > Thank you > Have you seen http://nvidia.netexplorer.org? It says they're still > waiting. > > nVidia 3D accelleration is *not* supported in FreeBSD at this moment, > until the FreeBSD nVidia Driver Initiative (nvidia.netexplorer.org) > comes up with something real good, or until someone reverse-engineers > the complete chipset and writes a DRI driver. Both of these things > probably won't happen soon, so you'd probably be better off buying > another card. > Well that certainly answers a lot of questions about nVidia! > > Speaking of DRI: more information can be found at > people.freebsd.org/~anholt/dri/. From that site, you can also see that > the only 'current-generation' chipset with DRI support is the ATi > Radeon 8500, and that's with development drivers. > > Hope that clarifies some things for you, > Thank you, it does. But, if you don't mind me asking, is there a way that a mere mortal like me can find out about various cards without having to bother the list? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message