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Date:      Sat, 10 Nov 2001 01:31:46 +0200 (EET)
From:      Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
To:        "Kevin D.Wooten" <kwooten@home.com>
Cc:        <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20011110012530.X1841-100000@kushnir1.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <01110901202702.01161@newton.cevio.com>

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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Kevin D.Wooten wrote:

>
>
> > i. Is it feasible to port Linux fbdev modules to FreeBSD (as a modules,
> > again)?
>
>
> I was under the impression that the subsystem is there ( /usr/src/sys/dev/fb
> ? ). Maybe not the specific accelerated drivers, but the basics look there.
> I will say the video mode selection looks weak though, Linux does have a much
> more flexible mode selection.
>
> P.S. - I have been trying to get NVidia docs ( I have to sign an NDA ) to
> build a GeForce3 framebuffer.
>

Actually, rivafb under Linux provides some HW acceleration (based on
utah-glx code, I think). There's no GeForce3 there, though.

-- 
Vladimir Kushnir - vkushnir@Alfacom.net


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