official nvidia drivers for...

[TheOmegaCode]

FreeBSD!

 

[Sunner]

One of the reasons why I like nVidia, they release official and good working drivers for more than just Windows.
I've always been kinda impressed that they've had good Linux drivers, but hey, FreeBSD drivers as well just makes it even better 😀

 

[bromer]

Thats just sweet.. Now we just need Matrox to do the same 🙂

 

[Vadatajs]

WOO HOO!!!

 

[Electrode]

most interesting! 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: bromer
Thats just sweet.. Now we just need Matrox to do the same 🙂

I have never had problems with the XFree86 Matrox drivers (mga?).

 

[bromer]

Well. . you can use their card, but not as good as you can in Linux as Matrox have made drivers to linux 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: bromer
Well. . you can use their card, but not as good as you can in Linux as Matrox have made drivers to linux 🙂

I have never had problems with a Maxtrox card in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, or BeOS. What is the difference between mga and the Matrox provided drivers?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: bromer
Well. . you can use their card, but not as good as you can in Linux as Matrox have made drivers to linux 🙂

I have never had problems with a Maxtrox card in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, or BeOS. What is the difference between mga and the Matrox provided drivers?

I doubt there is a difference with the XFree86 drivers. They're all mga, right? The good thing about official drivers, is it takes more advantage of your hardware...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: bromer
Well. . you can use their card, but not as good as you can in Linux as Matrox have made drivers to linux 🙂

I have never had problems with a Maxtrox card in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, or BeOS. What is the difference between mga and the Matrox provided drivers?

I doubt there is a difference with the XFree86 drivers. They're all mga, right? The good thing about official drivers, is it takes more advantage of your hardware...

According to Matrox:

The included display drivers are based on the Matrox driver source
included with XFree86. Modifications made by Matrox include the
addition of escape calls to support Matrox PowerDesk, and the
inclusion of the Matrox HAL library, which can be optionally
installed to enable Matrox specific features.

They offer source, but Im not sure how much of it is source or if they are doing it like nVidia.

 

[bromer]

Year.. thats what I mean. That your driver supportst the special features of your hardware is nice. I have allways thought that the standard mga driver sucked as it didn't use all of my Matrox card. It will be nice to shift to my GeForce2 hard with offcial drivers 🙂