Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
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 team. http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html certainly lists Linux/XFree86 as an OS choice and the various FireGL products. I bet one of these drivers would work with newer Radeon cards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
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 module permamently takes kernel to the hell of core dumps? 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. There is another FreeBSD/NVidia Initiative to develop DRI-capable driver for FreeBSD. Did you contact him? You'd be better off working with ATI or the PowerVR people. 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 play games on same desktop. What should I do? Change video cards every day? Whatever? Or use ancient 16-bit NVidia drivers not capable to use even 1152x864x110 Hz? Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
| 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 play games on same desktop. | | What should I do? Change video cards every day? Whatever? 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. -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
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. That FreeBSD is very good as a server OS does not mean that it should not support my graphics hardware. 3D/2D graphics is not only about playing games. But the problem here is with NVidia. Because they have to provide the drivers. Selling a video card without specifying how to access the video card is like selling a microwave oven without labeled buttons. Anyway some part of my original question isn't listed under freebsd current mailing list archives. I don't know what the problem was, but here's the more relevant part with the current... -- 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 more about the release policy. After 5.0 stable is released, is the development in the current branch completely be named 6.0? (and any possibly new features (like finer grained locking) will be available in 6.0 stable) Or is the development in current tree will continue to be merged with 5.x for some time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message
Re: About 5.0 and Nvidia drivers
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 complete as many feature as possiblei without shipping a broken 5.0. There is, however, a limited number of hands doing to dirty work. Will 5.0 stable be created after KSE milestone 4 commit? No. 5.0-STABLE will be created after 5.0-RELEASE. However, Julian will probably have (a portion of) KSE milestone 4 committed before 5.0-RELEASE is released. I just wanted to know more about the release policy. http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html After 5.0 stable is released, is the development in the current branch completely be named 6.0? Yes. Or is the development in current tree will continue to be merged with 5.x for some time? Features in the FreeBSD-current tree are often merged back to FreeBSD-stable. This include features in 5.x that get merged back to FreeBSD 4.x. There is no reason why features added to 6.x can't be merged back to 5.x (other than man power). -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-current 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-current 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-current 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-current 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-current in the body of the message
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-current in the body of the message
