On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:25 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
> > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >> In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD
> > >> speci
Robert Huff wrote:
Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to
write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are
added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.)
This has - obviously - not happened,
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 02:18:10PM -0400, Mungyung Ryu wrote:
>
> Hi BSD folks!
>
> I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64.
> I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver
> for Linux or FreeBSD!
> So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce.
>
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD
> >> specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of
> >> funds to
Da Rock writes:
> I apologise for jumping into this thread mid way, but wouldn't
> the problem be simply a case of nil NDA? If an FOSS programmer
> signed an NDA with say NVidia, then wouldn't the hardware
> supplier be more willing to supply more specific details?
>
> Anyone with experienc
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 07:26 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:36:26 -0800
> Henrik Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a missive
> >stating:
> >> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
> >>
> >> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL P
Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Again, it appears that NVIDIA has attempted to work with the
>FBSD community. Evidently, nothing has come of it. Unfortunate,
>to say the least.
The next step - sometimes suggested, but never to my knowledge
attepted - would be for someone to run a
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:36:26 -0800
Henrik Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a missive
>stating:
>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
>>
>> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> In all likelihood, the probability of any
giving out a specs will be the simplest way.
Any entity, or corporation, has a right to expect a return on their
investment. To expect a corporation to simply give away something,
quite a difference.
for example - documentation about say pentium 4 assembly language and
opcodes are widely ava
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a missive stating:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD
> >> specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expen
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:52:08 -0400
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry - wrong list. Try:
>
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html
Thanks!
Considering the age of the article, Thu Jun 29 11:12:35 UTC 2006, I am
surprised that more has not transp
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD
>> specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of
>> funds to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue
>> from s
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a missive stating:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:24:33 -0400
> Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to
> >write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabiliti
Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to
>>write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are
>>added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.)
>> This has - obviously - not happened, and I do not know o
In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD
specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds
to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from such
an expenditure.
giving out a specs will be the simplest way.
_
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:24:33 -0400
Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to
>write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are
>added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.)
> This
I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be
enough,
but it should support 1920x1200 resolution.
I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64.
Anybody can recommend?
none of them are supported on any arch. unless giving somewhat-working
bi
Henrik Hudson writes:
> > The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD.
>
> Call the vendors and tell them you want drivers.
nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to
write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are
added to the kernel. (See previous di
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, "Mungyung Ryu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent a missive
stating:
> Hi BSD folks!
>
> I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64.
> I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting
> driver for Linux or FreeBSD!
> So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI c
> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:18:10 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC
>
> Hi BSD folks!
>
> I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64.
> I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver
> for Linu
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