Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:59:40 +0100 From: "Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com> To: "Kal Torak" <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, "FreeBSD-stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <004c01c0c26e$21b6e7c0$650e850a@innovisiongroup.com> References: <3AD427DC.CFC52BAE@quake.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hiya > I have been looking into the situation with 3D Acceleration (eg. OpenGL) > with FreeBSD, the current state of things is pretty poor compared with > what linux now offers! I agree - maybe it's not that important if you're running a web server, but accelerated OpenGL is pretty useful. > We currently have Mesa and Glide 2 to support 3dfx cards (voodoo etc.) > which are no longer being produced since 3dfx has been bought out by > nVidia... There is Utah-GLX for the Rage cards... That leaves us with > nothing for nVidia cards, the current market leader in the 3D Acceleration > game!!! (nVidia are pretty much the only player right now) The TNT2 cards are supported, at least under X3. The Radeon should have support too AIR. > I am hoping to spark some interest in getting DRI ported to FreeBSD and even > better, to get the nVidia linux drivers ported... I am going to mail nVidia > linux team and see if I can get them to ether release all the source or to nVidia won't release source 8^( -- C-YA Jon <http://www.witchspace.com>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?004c01c0c26e$21b6e7c0$650e850a>