Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:58:12 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Brent <brentb@loa.com> Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203041756580.27382-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <005801c1c389$e0753c80$37b4a8c0@pretorian>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
It's supposed to be soon, in fact it was supposed to have happened at the end of January. The nvidia released drivers (thanks to Matthew Dodd) already work for 2d, although with some bugs. Right now we're just waiting on nvidia to get us some native GL libs, and fix the bugs in their binary part of the driver. Ken On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Brent wrote: > When is this going to happen ...I have a gforce2mx and KDE and it works > great ...but i cant play any 3d games like quake3 for example.. > Does anyone have any idea when theres going to be some sort of 3d support > for nvidia cards ?? I know its been talked about .. > I much rather use my FBSD box than a win box.. > > > Brent > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu> > To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> > Cc: "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com>; "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" > <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 11:39 PM > Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers > > > > > > > > On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > > > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 09:53 pm, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > > > I don't think I'm missing your point, I just disagree with it. > > > > > > > > > > Instead of fighting for FreeBSD I'd rather fight for open source > > > > > software, and the nvidia Linux "solution" is to include Linux in > their > > > > > closed-source world. You want them to include FreeBSD in their > > > > > closed-source world as well. > > > > > > > > > > This seems more like betrayal to the cause than fighting for the > cause to > > > > > me, and I, for one, am not going to fight for that. > > > > > > > > > > A petition for them to release their information so that FreeBSD > *and* > > > > > other O/S's could take advantage of their hardware--*that*, I would > > > > > support. > > > > > > > > > > But not this. > > > > > > > > So let me get this straight... You would rather wait for something > that is > > > > never going to happen than see usable 3d drivers come out for > > > > FreeBSD. This is unrealistic. Nvidia is legally unable to release > source > > > > for their drivers, and I think we should be happy that they want to > > > > support FreeBSD at all. There is no legal or moral obligation for them > to > > > > release specs for their cards or open-source drivers. The fact that > they > > > > are releasing drivers at all is enough for me (and most other people > that > > > > actually want to USE the 3d support that they paid for.) > > > > > > True. > > > > > > And I'm under no legal or moral obligation to buy their products as long > as > > > they insist on sticking with proprietary solutions. > > > > > > I still find this "legal obligation" not to release them to be so much > > > gobbly-gook: They *chose* to use solutions that were so encumbered, and > I > > > *choose* to avoid them as a result. > > > > > > I'd be happy to encourage them to pursue other strategies. I don't want > to > > > join some movement to beg the corporacracy to drop some scraps in our > bowl, > > > too. I'm not going to prostitute myself that way. > > > > > > I do all my prostitution on company time instead :-) > > > > > > [I really don't think of myself as being nearly as much of an > open-source > > > radical as I seem to be coming across in this little debate, but I guess > I > > > wish that we could have enough pride in what FreeBSD has accomplished as > a > > > freeware project that we wouldn't let the attractiveness of a slightly > > > smoother curve on the blast from the frag granade have us all begging to > be > > > treated just like the "big boys" of the O/S's.] > > > > > > [[Really, I never I knew I felt this strongly about it before . . . ]] > > > > basically I got my video card for free. I don't want to pay for another > > card. I'd much rather get 3d drivers for the card I have. > > > > Ken > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.GSO.4.21.0203041756580.27382-100000>