From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 17 10:36: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90EF437B401 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C3B43E6E for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 664DB4FC96; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:37:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6119C4A0D for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:37:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:37:17 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17 Sep 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Date: 17 Sep 2002 07:48:29 -0700 > From: Gary W. Swearingen > To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: IF you like your NVIDIA Graphics card > > ... > > Saw this on /. > ... > > Hugh writes "The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has > > announced[1] that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD > > driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for > > people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available." > > >From what I read, some people have learned not to get exited until > nVidia says "has released" -- "will be releasing" being an old story, > often told. Apparently, XFree86 manages to get enough info out of ATI > and some other companies to write open-source drivers for them in a more > timely manner. (My new Radeon 7000 works nicely under XFree86 4.2.) > Yes, but without any useful 3-D (OpenGL) support, correct? My nVidia card works fine with the XFree86 'nv' driver as well, but only with 3D acceleration where the nVidia drivers have been provided. The people following that chain-of-events wnat OpenGL; as a 2D card, most of them work fine already. If you tell me that your Radeon works in OpenGL 3D in XFree86 (at better than 5 FPS) I'll go buy one right now ;-) Sorry for the OT continuation - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message