Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
On 9/27/07, Kjell Tore Ullavik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Remko Lodder wrote:
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:07:42PM +0200, Giulio Ferro wrote:
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
There is no driver.
I sort of surmised that already...
So, we are still years away from seeing a working nvidia driver,
by the look of it...
I guess what I am confused about, is there someone actively working on
the Nvidia requests, or does a capable individual need to take the
lead on this project?
And that's exactly what I'd very much like to know...
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>From what I know and what I can see; there is nobody actively working in
this region to get the things fixed to get this far. Ofcourse like rsync.net
you are free to sponsor these items if they are really important to you,
without that, do notice that people do this in their own free time, which
could either take some time before it's there, or might not be interesting
enough to work on currently (because of other things at work, private life
other code etc).
It's not a matter of a capable individual taking the lead, it's a matter
of having someone capable enough working on this for some time, which can
be achieved by sponsoring that capable person for example.
Cheers
remko
Maybe the FreeBSD project could provide an official site for bounties?
Some things might have more interest among users than developers,
and an easy way to create and donate to bounties for everyone to see may
make it less of a barrier for people to put their money where their
mouth is.
Ubuntu seem to have something going, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bounties
if there was a bounty system for FreeBSD I would pledge $100 USD for
work that would help amd64 nvidia... heck I would even settle for
someone that wants to take lead and setup a paypal collection.
Sam Fourman Jr.
What needs to be done is FreeBSD users need to be asked,
specifically, if they have interest in an amd64 capable nvidia-driver
being released. If so, then a donation page should be setup and
coordinated either through the FreeBSD Foundation (desired) or a
trusted, private individual who will distribute the funds to the parties
implementing the feature.
Personally I think that this should apply to many things, not just
nvidia-driver. If that was done, maybe volunteer work (I know, less
volunteer, more work) would move along faster. The same thing occurs in
the business world but instead of small bounties it's usually a large
sum of money for a set of features developed and supported over a long
period of time. At least that's what Linux would make me think...
Just my two cents..
-Garrett
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