On Dec 1, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Andrew Ball wrote:
>> project, NVIDIA people were kind enough to at least
>> try to answer the questions I asked them.
>
> Well that was decent of them.  Perhaps I should start buying
> more nVidia products.

Maybe.  :-)  They do seem to be a lot more active about supporting  
Linux, the BSDs, and Solaris, compared with ATI.

>    QG> Porting the FreeBSD driver is not that big a task; it
>> took me two months at the time to get it into a some-
>> what working state, and I had no previous kernel
>> programming experience.
>
> I'm not familiar with the FreeBSD nVidia driver.  Is it a
> binary thing, or can it be used on different ports and
> architectures?

It's a binary file which includes hardware OpenGL accel, using the  
GLX extensions.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

-- 
-Chuck