[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Sun Feb 3 06:47:14 EST 2008


On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
>
>On 02/02/2008, at 1:18 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
>> Most of which aren't documented so X can't use the GPU unless the
>> vendor releases a binary driver.  (Though AMD is releasing  
>> documentation
>> for some of the ATI GPUs and Intel have just released documentation on
>> a couple of their newer GPUs).

To correct Jerahmy slightly:
>The nVidia people have a FreeBSD driver for their cards.. I was a  
                   binary^       ^/i386
>member of the project to get that port =p

That is in keeping with what I stated and is of little use if you are
(eg) running amd64.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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