Nvidia driver?

[Ivan Voras]

On 4 January 2011 21:29, George Liaskos <geo.liaskos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Who works for those opensource drivers to become better on freebsd, i
> am all for donating.

Most open source X11 drivers are (luckily) developed the same for
Linux and FreeBSD:

http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/

AFAIK the Open source effort for nvidia drivers is not very popular
(develops even more slowly than for ATI cards) because the binary
drivers work good enough for most users.

It's a very sorry situation.

It gets even more complicated every couple of years when the Linux
guys introduce "revolutionary" technology which breaks compatibility
with everything else (and other OSes). In the recent years there have
been several "innovations" which fragment the whole situation into
oblivion:

* Abandoning HAL : http://www.x.org/wiki/Other/Press/X11R76Released
* GEM : http://lwn.net/Articles/283798/
* Gallium3D : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gallium
* Kernel mode setting : http://www.x.org/wiki/ModeSetting

Most of these are well intended and good in long term but for now, the
situation with X.Org drivers looks like an uncoordinated mess.