In a mail to the FreeBSD hackers mailing-list, a very detailed request is made from Christian Zander at Nvidia, concerning several missing features in the FreeBSD kernel. In order for Nvidia to provide improved OpenGL performance and SLI support in the future for FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64, several important tasks needs to be completed.
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Member since:2006-04-28
Member since:2005-12-28
You're quite right - on the platforms that nVidia do support - the support, related to thair closed drivers, are really good.
But apart from that - they're closed. If you prefer open source drivers or if you use another platform - you're on your own. No specs (not even recent 2D specs - even under NDA), no nothing.
Member since:2005-07-06
But apart from that - they're closed. If you prefer open source drivers or if you use another platform - you're on your own. No specs (not even recent 2D specs - even under NDA), no nothing.
That's different from ATi how? Seriously, nVidia and ATi are the only two serious options for high-performance, high-quality 3D acceleration. While I wholeheartedly wish that they would provide this information. Faulting nVidia for something that is industry standard practice is getting old.
This isn't just a problem with the graphics card industry either. It's a problem with the hardware manufacturing industry as a whole.
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2005-12-27
NVIDIA at least is very supportive about Open Source projects not like ATI that does not care for other OS but for Windoze. I think it is a step to the right direction since a collaborative job between them will lead to a better NVIDIA and freeBSD future. I have used freeBSD for some time and NVIDIA isn't as good quality as in Linux for the freeBSD. But I give kudos to the NVIDIA people always heading towards the right cause.
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Note: I use WIndoze term not for trolling just because I don't like to use the true name which implies using a (tm) after it