Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:36:41 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@mail.yourfit.com> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: agp and 3dfx Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007261433440.305-100000@armani.yourfit.com> In-Reply-To: <397F1CE9.1CC0C1E2@es.co.nz>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Mike Muir wrote:
> Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote:
> >
> > I've had a quick look at NVidia's "src-rpm" for its driver under
> > Linux, and I've been very disappointed to see that the main parts
> > of this driver are 3 binary object files for which there is no
> > source.
> >
> > This inhibits porting by people from the FreeBSD projects - and
> > it's sad, considering my owning of a TNT2 ...
>
> I'm not sure if you saw my posting to question@freebsd.org but with
> the announcement of A|W porting Maya v3.0 to Linux, and the expected
> slew of related applications that will follow, we need the driver
> support from Nvidia ESPECIALLY when considering their recent push
> towards workstation solutions (quadro2 line.) Are there many high
> end cards which require more than an Xserver and/or driver which may
> already be available? (ala nvidia)
The new ATI Radeon must not be overlooked, nor should the
Voodoo5. Many of the people who are doing the most serious graphics
work will be using one of those two cards.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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