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Date:      Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:48:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net>
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.4.21.0203030947430.11239-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020303011935.S12253@rain.macguire.net>

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> Unwilling, or unable? As I've heard, they will not release specs because they
> cannot release specs as per licensing contracts for their technology. This
> hardly seems like a damnable offense to me, especially considering it helps
> them build excellent hardware.
> 
> As for the matter of not having support for NVidia cards under FreeBSD...
> 
> [snip]
> Section "Module"
>         Load  "extmod"
> 				Load  "xie"
> 				Load  "pex5"
> 				Load  "glx"
> 				Load  "dri"
> 				Load  "dbe"
> 				Load  "record"
> 				Load  "freetype"
> EndSection
> [snip]
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "nv"
>         VendorName  "NVidia"
>         BoardName   "GeForce2 MX"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
> [snip]
> 
> My NVidia card works fine under FreeBSD for me.
> 

Your card won't work for hardware accelerated 3d with the nv driver...

Ken

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> Benjamin Krueger
> 
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