Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-09 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:58:03AM -0400, Alp ATICI wrote: > I guess that is never going to be the case. Since ATI does not produce > drivers for linux (or any other UNIX) and has no such plans (AFAIK). I don't know why you think that. I sent a week in Germany with ATI's FireGL Linux driver tea

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-04 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 01:10:28PM -0400, Alp Atici wrote: > > By the time 5.0 is released do you aim to complete all the planned > features at www.freebsd.org/smp? (like full kernel preemption) I know it's > a tentative list but still if there's a consensus about that let me know. The aim is to

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-04 Thread Alp Atici
"Dan Moschuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:aijim2$2t69$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > It sounds like dual booting would be a better idea here. Boot into FreeBSD > when you want to code, boot into Windows when your son/daughter wish > to play games. > I don't think that's a good idea at all.

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-04 Thread Dan Moschuk
| You want to say me that there is an ATI graphics card that is more powerful | than NVidia GeForce? | | Sorry, but FreeBSD is really good operating system. Good enough for use it | on servers. As a system programmer, I wish to have a copy of it on my home | desktop. And my son/daughter wish to p

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-04 Thread Andrew Kolchoogin
Hi! On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:38:11PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd 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. Well, and, as under Linux, there will be an a closed-source library and a kernel

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
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 d

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Erik Greenwald
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 build

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
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 >

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Thierry Herbelot
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 d

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
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 | F

Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Munish Chopra
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, on

About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers

2002-08-03 Thread Alp ATICI
By the time 5.0 is released do you aim to complete all the planned features at www.freebsd.org/smp? (like full kernel preemption) I know it's a tentative list but still if there's a consensus about that let me know. Will 5.0 stable be created after KSE milestone 4 commit? I just wanted to know mo