nvidia XFree86 or X

[Osmany Guirola Cruz]

I want to know if a change in the X server will affect my video drivers, i 
have a nvidia video card(GeForce2) i download the drivers from the nvidia 
site(I WANT 3D ACCELERATION!!!) for FreeBSD now my question is If y change 
from XFree86 to X what happens with the drivers?  

On Friday 09 July 2004 02:45 am, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:26:18PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:09:20 +0200
> >
> > Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx at ua.ac.be> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:01:21AM -0700, Jammet wrote:
> > > > What is the differnce really between x.org and xfree86 and all the
> > > > others? I know there are 3 or 4 differnt servers atleast, what are
> > > > the advantages and disavantages to each and so on?
> > >
> > > X.org forked from XFree86 (recently), because XFree86 changed their
> > > license in 4.4.  The differences (now) are very small, but of course
> > > they may diverge more in the future.  FreeBSD, as well as most Linux
> > > distributions, have adopted X.org instead of XFree86 4.4.
> > >
> > > I upgraded from XFree86 4.3 to X.org 6.7.0, and I haven't noticed
> > > any difference (yet), except that XF86Config is now xorg.conf :-).
> > > They did include some new video-drivers though.
> >
> > So when did we adopt Xorg? From what I've been hearing on the X11
> > like, the plans appear to be to have them coexist.
>
> X.org 6.7.0 is in the Ports tree, XFree86 4.4 is not.
>
> Anyway, I would very much like to see FreeBSD supporting both of them
> (AFAIK, they would be the only one who do).
>
> I don't understand why *BSD would drop a package because of a
> GPL-incompatible license.  NetBSD has XFree86 4.4.
>
> GH
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