From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 2 22:42:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3926014CA3 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id WAA17606; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id WAA29471; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 22:42:35 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA18035; Wed, 2 Jun 99 22:42:32 PDT Message-Id: <375615C9.CE0C2768@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:42:33 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johan Jansson wrote: > > NVIDIA has released OpenGL drivers for Linux/X, with source, for all > their chipsets. It also seems they intend these to be used as a base > for other platforms as well (BeOS for example). Here is from the faq: > > "This distribution is meant to tide-us-over until that time, as well > as provide source for other platforms that want RIVA support." > > I think this is extremely good news. The drivers and faq can be > accessed from here: > > http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/NVIDIA_Drivers Does anyone know how/if/when this will bleed over to FreeBSD? A killer cheap OpenGL box might be kinda fun to have, and I'm already in the market for another desktop. TNT cards have gotten pretty cheap... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message