Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:50:38 -0700 From: "David P. Reese Jr." <daver@gomerbud.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org> Subject: Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers Message-ID: <20020806105038.GA674@tombstone.gomerbud.com>
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:30:47 -0700, Bill Huey wrote >I understand somebody has got the 2d side of this working in FreeBSD, >but the 3d stuff crashes still. The 2d stuff works great on my geforce2. The best part is the XVideo extensions. My last card was a Voodoo3 2000. I cant even begin to tell you how much better DVD's play with this card. The drivers are availible at ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/nvidia/ Support for 3d is still a bit off, but Matt seems to be optomistic due to his recent news post at http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html True 3d support is exciting. Using the provided drivers from nVidia (hacked to hell, of course), you should get true OpenGL 1.3 support. Thanks SGI. The current drivers are based off of rather old linux drivers. I think they are from the beginning of the year. No support for the geforce4 yet, but the fact that 2d works and seems to work well leads me to believe that the number of people using nvidia cards under FreeBSD should be increasing. A larger user base means that nvidia should be willing to pay more attention to us. -- David P. Reese Jr. daver@gomerbud.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- C You shoot yourself in the foot. Assembler You try to shoot yourself in the foot, only to discover you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot. How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot <http://www.m5p.com/~pravn/foot.html>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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