From: petra <P.Wenzeler@biochem.uni-erlangen.de>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: only old hardware supported?
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 13:21:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D4A5C6F.957DEDD0@biochem.uni-erlangen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D49E652.663771F6@null.net>
"Douglas A. Gwyn" schrieb:
> Phil Roessler wrote:
> > ... only outdated HW - especially only old graphics cards - are
> > supported.
>
> NVIDIA GEForce2 and GEForce3 cards work.
>
> The basic problem is that in the "PC architecture" each graphics
> chipset requires its own unique driver, and the graphics card
> manufacturers aren't very interested in supporting any OS other
> than a "mass market" one, e.g. Windows and sometimes Linux.
>
> If there were a good, standard frame-buffer interface then life
> would be so much simpler. But vendors aren't much interested in
> the idea.
How do other OSs (e.g. the various BSDs) overcome this problem? Do they
build their own drivers? How diffcult is this on Plan9?
Petra
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-02 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-01 8:51 [9fans] " Phil Roessler
2002-08-01 9:40 ` Ish Rattan
2002-08-01 21:04 ` Andrew Simmons
2002-08-02 8:48 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-08-02 13:21 ` petra [this message]
2002-08-05 17:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-08-02 13:51 Russ Cox
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