Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:39:35 -0700 From: Matthew Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: 3d@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvidia binary drivers Message-ID: <3ACA26F7.FE34F106@vpop.net> References: <200104031906.f33J6mE00856@Magelan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On 3 Apr, Matthew Reimer wrote: > > > The nvidia driver that's part of XF86 4.0.x (nv_drv.o) works fine for > > 2D, but it doesn't do 3D/DRI/Xv. The only way to get hardware > > acceleration is to use utah-glx with XF 3.3.6, or to use nvidia_drv.o > > (not nv_drv.o) + nvidia's kernel module. > > Does nvidia_drv.o really _requieres_ the kernel module to put > _something_ on the screen (do you have tried it yourself)? > I didn't have the PI description about the architecture here, but if I > remember correctly there are two ways to put 3D on the screen. A way > which uses DMA and a way without DMA. I'm pretty sure. If I recall correctly, Nvidia's driver (nvidia_drv.o) doesn't use DRI, but instead uses their own kind of DRI through their kernel module. Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich@nvidia.com> would probably be the best person to ask about this, since he maintains both nv_drv.o (XF86) and nvidia_drv.o (Nvidia's driver). Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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