From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 4 23:18:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA96537B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20706.mail.yahoo.com (web20706.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8CFA43E75 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:18:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edlyu@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020805061820.25241.qmail@web20706.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.234.239.67] by web20706.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 04 Aug 2002 23:18:20 PDT Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:18:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Ed Yu Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers To: Alp ATICI Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No AFAIK there's nothing like ATI driver. It's just > that XFree86 > supports it. Only in 2D. I don't know of a ATI > FreeBSD or linux > driver otherwise. 3D is supported via DRI. check it out at dri.sourceforge.net. Whether it works perfectly, that's a different question. :) I don't have an ATI card to test it. I believe the Linux driver actually does do 3D (some benchmark says it's faster than Windows). The 'ported' FreeBSD driver doesn't do 3D yet. I agree that it would be better for Nvidia to support it. Once they found a business reason I guess. I think that everyone who has a Nvidia card should write to Nvidia asking for a FreeBSD driver, or say that you would go buy a card if they release a driver. When there is money to be made, they would do it. :) > I think there're lots of cards waiting to be > supported. > So one should never expect full support when it > comes to > Xfree86 case. Xfree86 has deeper problems itself. In > my opinion > they shouldn't waste time trying to support each and > every card > but implement true transparency, better font > rendering and improve > efficiency first. I agree but there is actually a lot of work done on these right now as X extensions. You should check them out. If I were to run linux, XFree86's > support (via nv > driver) would be worthless because I'd have an > Nvidia card running > perfectly on its linux nvidia driver. XFree86 drivers is different from kernel drivers. I think the linux nvidia driver is for XFree86. BTW, I'm buying a new ATI card so I can help out development of ATI driver for DRI. -ed > > Alp > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message