Subject: Re: NVidia question
To: Breno Colom <firebit@terra.com.pe>
From: Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/2002 19:28:31
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> > the XFree86 DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) is not supported under
 [...]
> > this---and it was developed for LINUX by a commercial outfit if memory
> > serves.  FreeBSD added the hooks necessary to support it.
>
> Yeah, Precision Insight developed the DRI framework.

That's the name I was thinking of, but I wasn't sure offhand.  (^&


> > I am not aware of anyone presently working on DRI under NetBSD.  (That
> > doesn't mean that no one is working on it.  (^&)  If there were a
 [...]
> Work is being done to support the complete set of features that Linux
> DRI CVS supports, which includes most popular non-nvidia chipsets. As
 [...]

Ah, this is the first time anyone has said that they're actually working
on NetBSD support for DRI.  Good to hear it.


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu