Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:07:53 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Jonathan Belson <jon@witchspace.com>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nVidia Cards /w FreeBSD (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <3AD4D5B9.28531597@quake.com.au> References: <200104112153.WAA00825@banks.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Richard Tobin wrote: > > > Before you lambast Nvidia for wanting to keep its IP > > under wraps, it appears that none of the other video card makers (ATI, > > Matrox) have handed over their "crown jewels" to Open Source developers. > > Nvidia is at least providing an optimised driver for its cards -- Matrox and > > ATI haven't > > So how come we haven't even got the XVideo extension available on > GeForce cards, unlike ATI and Matrox? Sounds fair to lambast NVidia > to me. If nVidia wont provide enough info for developers to make drivers, then they will just have to make ports for ever system! Ok, so they wont do that, but we only need to convince them to make a port to FreeBSD :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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