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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:30:15 +0100
From:      "Jan Stocker" <jstocker@tzi.de>
To:        "Herve Quiroz" <herve.quiroz@esil.univ-mrs.fr>, <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Nvidia nForce chipset support
Message-ID:  <000201c1c50a$aaf348e0$fe02010a@twoflower.liebende.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020306120749.R98796-100000@puget.esil.univ-mrs.fr>

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There isnt a 3d accerelated driver for nVidia chipsets yet, some people are
workin on it. As i understand, a part of the driver depends on a linux
kernel module (which of couse isnt compatible with FreeBSD) and the sources
for 3D arent free cause nVidia bought them from SGI...

http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html

Jan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Herve Quiroz
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 12:14 PM
> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Nvidia nForce chipset support
>
>
> Abit has just released a nForce based motherboard in a microATX format
> which looks good for building a small but powerful station with everything
> integrated (and BTW quite cheap...). What are the components currently
> supported (audio, ethernet, gfx...) ?
>
> Has anyone tried the nForce under FreeBSD ? I was thinking the geForce2MX
> based GPU would be supported by XFree86 but as there are some problems
> under win32 (which does not always recognize the GPU to be a gf2mx), I was
> wondering how it was doing under FreeBSD.
>
> Hervé
>
>
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