Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Erik Greenwald wrote: > ugh, sounds like the lip-service I was getting. "I'll look into that" :/ No, they're working on it, and actually have GL running in the lab. > I'm starting to ponder the legality and challenge involved in reverse > engineering the card and building a driver from scratch... maybe > something that works with X the X way (dri/drm) You're a funny guy. You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL| ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:28:07PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > Sorry, this has been the status for months now. > ugh, sounds like the lip-service I was getting. "I'll look into that" :/ I'm starting to ponder the legality and challenge involved in reverse engineering the card and building a driver from scratch... maybe something that works with X the X way (dri/drm) -- -Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [http://math.smsu.edu/~erik] The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability, they are random rambling, and to be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep Refrigerated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Le Saturday 03 August 2002 22:09, Matthew N. Dodd a écrit : > > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: > > > And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that > > > Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to > > > know what's going on in that issue too. > > > > "Any day now." > > wow ! > > what will this driver know to do ? (any URL to begin RTFMing ?) Sorry, this has been the status for months now. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL| ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
Le Saturday 03 August 2002 22:09, Matthew N. Dodd a écrit : > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: > > And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that > > Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to > > know what's going on in that issue too. > > "Any day now." wow ! what will this driver know to do ? (any URL to begin RTFMing ?) TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Alp ATICI wrote: > And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that > Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to > know what's going on in that issue too. "Any day now." -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL| ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
On 2002-08-03 12:14 +, Alp ATICI wrote: [snip] > > And what's the latest about the Nvidia drivers? It's mentioned that > Nvidia has plans to produce the drivers for FreeBSD. I'd be happy to know > what's going on in that issue too. > We know about as much as you do. Waiting for NVIDIA, once again. I'll fire off a mail to some of our contacts and ask, but I'm pretty sure it'll be more of the same we usually get. -- Munish Chopra To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
