Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:43:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Dempsey <chrisdempsey@yahoo.com> To: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, xpert@xfree86.org Subject: Re: Geforce 2 Message-ID: <20001018144304.3535.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com>
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This is untrue. According to nick@nvidia.com, and in my experience, the drivers available for download through NVidia or through a X CVSup update are different packages. NVidia posts both a GLX and a kernel driver for linux. The same GLX driver under BSD seems to work fine, the kernel driver does not. According to him, a BSD port is in the works, when it will arrive he was not terribly specific. --- Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> wrote: > Thus spake Ian Fricker (ifricker@uiuc.edu): > > > I recently installed freebsd. I have a Creative > Labs 3D Annihilator 2 > > with Nvidia's GeForce 2 chipset. It isn't > supported, and I was wondering > > if you knew if there were bsd drivers for my card > and where I can get > > them. I've looked several places on the web and > haven't been able to > > find any, but maybe I'm overlooking something. If > you need any more > > info, let me know. Thanks. > > Please wrap your lines at ~70 characters. > > There's actually no such thing as BSD drivers for > video cards; all > graphics card drivers are part of XFree86. > > The best place to start searching for compatible > cards is at > http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status.html. > > Bear in mind that nVidia have traditionally been > less than helpful in > opening up the specs of their cards, so open source > drivers may be hard > to come by. There's a couple of commerical X servers > mentioned at > http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/x.html#AEN3014 which > might help. > > > Nick > > -- > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild > monkey." > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of > the message ===== Christopher P Dempsey --------------------- chrisdempsey@yahoo.com (805) 570-9230 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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