Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:52:24 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: jgrosch@es.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphics card recommendation Message-ID: <19158.4056.376760.654492@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net> References: <20091014153100.GH22136@ece.pdx.edu> <20091014115949.33b1adb4@scorpio.seibercom.net> <12173.RF1FTAsCFkY=.1255538317.squirrel@webmail-west.es.net>
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jgrosch@es.net writes: > I could be wrong but nVidia does not seem to be very interested > in working with the FreeBSD project to address these problems. nVidia has offered what many/most hardware vendors* do not: to write and maintain a driver for their product. However, in order for that driver to be fully functional they want certain improvements in FreeBSD - particularly the virtual memory system. Not an unreasonable request. Some work has been done; there was a post somewhere within the last few months about John Baldwin making improvements. Check the archives of this list for pointers to the list of changes and the status of the work. Robert Huff * - a notable exception being Intel, for their network cards.
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