Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:11:18 +0200 From: Martin Faxer <gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Status of NV drivers? Message-ID: <20020611151118.GA634@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net> In-Reply-To: <3D061078.F3FD7563@mitre.org> References: <3D061078.F3FD7563@mitre.org>
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On 2002.06.11 11:00:08 +0000, Jason Andresen wrote: > I've been looking around for a card with decent 3d to replace my > aging G200 and I've considered various NVidia cards. The problem > is that all of the websites for FreeBSD on NV seem to have 3 > common properties: > > 1. They apparently havn't been touched in months. > 2. They claim 3D support "soon". > 3. They have out of date or no actual code. All the code I've found is > for patching old (sometimes a couple of revisions) Linux drivers. > > Patching the Linux drivers seems like a viable solution, but has this > project died or is there some other secret website/mailing list > somewhere > where activity still flourishes? the man to talk to is matthew n. dodd <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>. he's been working with nvidia on getting the linux drivers ported to freebsd, and for a while it went really well. now i think they've taken it "in house" though, so matthew can't do much to speed it up... he still keeps drivers around at his ftp site, which is at ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia, however they lack 3d support. in the beginning when nvidia said that the drivers would be ready "soon" i actually believed them, now i've kinda lost hope though... it'll probably be a while before we see 3d accelerated nvidia drivers for freebsd. > I've considered getting an ATI card instead, but I've been constantly > disappointed with their Windows drivers (this is a dual boot machine). > After being burned a few times I'm a little hesitant to go for the > ATI solution. ati has working dri support right now, and a few days ago i read about promised support for the newer chipsets too, sponsored by the weather channel, so ati might be your best bet even if you've had problems with them in the past... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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