Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com> Cc: Alp ATICI <atici@cpw.math.columbia.edu>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020805105943.L7662-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <20020805061820.25241.qmail@web20706.mail.yahoo.com>
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Nvidia has given word that they are going to support FreeBSD... but nobody has said when this driver will appear. Ken On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Ed Yu wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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