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Subject: [9fans] Re: only old hardware supported?
Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2002 13:21:32 +0000
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"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 only outdated HW - especially only old graphics cards - are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