From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 5 21:10:31 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 02FA837B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gnuppy.monkey.org (wsip68-15-8-100.sd.sd.cox.net [68.15.8.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1BDF43E6A for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billh@gnuppy.monkey.org) Received: from billh by gnuppy.monkey.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17bveZ-00018S-00; Mon, 05 Aug 2002 21:09:03 -0700 Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:09:03 -0700 To: Frank Mayhar Cc: Alp ATICI , Ed Yu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Bill Huey (Hui)" Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020806040903.GA4316@gnuppy.monkey.org> References: <200208051636.g75GaamW000669@realtime.exit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200208051636.g75GaamW000669@realtime.exit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Bill Huey (Hui) 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 On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:36:36AM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: > Sigh. You know, I wish you folks would do some research before you go > spouting off in public. > > ATI supports open source developers. NVidia doesn't. Period, end of > story. For proof, see their respective websites and any number of > mailing lists devoted to this topic. In slight support of NVidia... First of all, the NVidia driver I've been using under Linux has given me zero problems over the years. It's a great card with good performance and a pretty solid driver. As far as the sources go, they open sourced the parts of it that are OS specific so that it can be ported using its native PCI supporting functions, having the rest is kind of silly. Their supporting engineers are pretty available, responsive online and bug (compile time) fixes happen very quickly. The rest of the source dealing with how they package T&L frankly can stay with NVidia. Most folks don't have the time to screw with stuff like that and it's doubtful that any small volunteer driven group could replicate its quality. That's my two cents. ;) bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message