This is Very Cool, Quentin. It would be nice to have decent
nVidia driver available, tho I've personally gone ATI.

(I chose ATI precisely since they support XFree86 well, countrary
to nVidia, which has this stupid policy to only provide platform-specific
binary drivers for XFree86).

Jaromir 

Quentin Garnier wrote:
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> Le Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:33:06 +0100
> Quentin Garnier a _crit :
> > That means the kernel part of the driver can work. However, the XFree86
> > module (which is entirely binary) can't obtain a shared memory id, thus
> > I can't draw anything on the display. It's possible some parts of my
> > XFree86 build are too old, or the issue is related to a bad
> > NetBSD/FreeBSD interaction. Either way, I finally got that damn screen
> > :o)
> 
> With a little patch against xsrc (to let the binary driver access shm*
> calls), it now basically works. At least, the xvideo extension is
> available, which is not the case with XFree86 regular nv driver.
> 
> And what's even sweeter is that I don't have an issue I get with a vanilla
> FreeBSD 4.7, involving sound (my mb doesn't seem to handle well the load).
> 
> I'm still far from playing UT2003 though, and my mail to
> freebsd-gfx-bugs@nvidia.com remains unanswered.
> 
> cube
> 
> -- 
> That's how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything
> for the swim back.
> Vincent/Jerome, in Gattaca.
> 


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