Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:46:04 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <3AD427DC.CFC52BAE@quake.com.au>
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Hiyas, 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! 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) I know there was *some* work to port DRI to FreeBSD, but that seems to have been stopped or something? There are also the nVidia drivers for linux, which involve a kernel module and a good deal of it is binary only :( Then I look at www.lokigames.com and see all these great games that work under FreeBSD (with linux compat), and I think OMG! We NEED some support for these nVidia cards!!! Software rendering is not even an option for a lot of these games, and as I said 3dfx is no longer making cards, so if you want 3D Acceleration you goto nVidia... 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 work with some FreeBSD developers to make a port, but we need some developers to take an interest in making it happen! (I unfortunately dont have the needed skills) Anyway, let me know of anything in this area, anyone get DRI to work? any thought on the issue etc? Lets take away the need for windows to play games!!! Viva la revaluation! ;) Thanks heaps guys! Kal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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