Trent Nelson had the audacity to say:
> Garrett Rooney wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Trent Nelson wrote:
> >
> > > So, given a working FreeBSD-specific kernel device driver - can the
> > > Linux OpenGL driver/libraries provided be handled via linux.ko?
> >
> > i believe the general answer is a definative maybe. but honestly, do you
> > really care enough to try?
>
> 'Maybe' is good enough for me.
>
I would guess that if they have managed to abstract their NT source to the point
where a simple wrapper can turn it into a linux kmod, then it is quite possible
that it may be able to be ported to FreeBSD. The only other thing is whether
their X Server could be ported in such a way (is it a binary only X-Server as
well? or do they use the r128 driver supplied?). I suppose that one could always
run XFree86 in linux emulation...if possible.
> > that's less than the
> > programmer time to make the NVidia drivers work is worth, and you can
> > actually be sure you'll have some kind of success, where the NVidia stuff
> > is really up in the air.
>
> NVIDIA's stand on Open Source can only get better. Unless they're
> *really* stupid.
>
Well, so far they haven't shown this. Since their itroduction of <quote>open
source drivers</quote> they have retracted the openness of their drivers to the
point that they are simply a binary with the necessary source to link them to a
module.
> > -garrett
>
> Trent.
>
FWIW: I have a roommate who has been having severe stability issues with
NVidia's binary drivers under Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. He has decided to
switch back to the XFree86 supplied drivers that have lower performance
to stop X from crashing so much. You can't even debug them because the
symbols have been stripped out. Too bad.
--
Coleman Kane
President,
UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu
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