So. What are those of us with Nvidia cards to do? Install a different video card? David
Emiel Kollof wrote: > Op dinsdag 14 februari 2006 13:00, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Does the nvidia driver for FreeBSD work on DragonFly? > > I think I'm the most qualified to answer this, assuming you are talking about > the driver for Xorg ;) > > Short answer: No. > > Long answer: nVidia decided to ditch FreeBSD 4.x support. Combined with our > divergence from the FreeBSD 4 ABI, the userlands parts of the nVidia driver > isn't compatible anymore, nor will they ever be unless they decide to > recompile/release for DragonFlyBSD as well. I managed to port over the kernel > glue (of which the source is freely available), but it's useless without the > userland parts. Also, new kernel glue will not interface with old userland > stuff. The license of the driver also prohibits this. > > I already wrote several times to nVidia that I'd accept to sign an NDA to get > access to the driver source, but I haven't heard back from them yet. I'm > seriously considering starting a petition to get dfbsd support, but I don't > know if it will have any clout, since we're not "big" like FreeBSD yet. > > Hope this clarifies things a bit. > > Cheers, > Emiel
