Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:28:23 +0800 From: Trent Nelson <tpnelson@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> To: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@rpi.edu> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, nimrodm@email.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support) Message-ID: <3983CB07.9436BB0C@echidna.stu.cowan.edu.au> References: <Pine.A41.3.96.1000730013029.154958A-100000@cortez.sss.rpi.edu>
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Garrett Rooney wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Trent Nelson wrote: > > > So, given a working FreeBSD-specific kernel device driver - can the > > Linux OpenGL driver/libraries provided be handled via linux.ko? > > i believe the general answer is a definative maybe. but honestly, do you > really care enough to try? 'Maybe' is good enough for me. > that's less than the > programmer time to make the NVidia drivers work is worth, and you can > actually be sure you'll have some kind of success, where the NVidia stuff > is really up in the air. NVIDIA's stand on Open Source can only get better. Unless they're *really* stupid. > -garrett Trent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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