Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9?

[MoJoJoJo <MoJoJoJo@ppuff.com>]

Looks like nVidia cards are supported by XFree with hardware
acceleration in versions 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 -- see:
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status21.html#21

The latest plan9 hardware support document is at:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/pchardware.html

Is the ultimate goal of this OS to be just a developer test platform?
I can't help but wonder where a lot of other OSes would have been
right now if they had not turned their noses up at 'gaming hardware'.
It's a good thing that 

--TNT2 Ultra Owner

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:14:14 GMT, nigel@9fs.org wrote:

>In general, the more 3D oriented, and state-of-the-art,
>the less likely the card is to be supported. This is partially
>a function of the proprietary nature of 'gamers' cards,
>and partially the unlikelihood that researchers in Plan 9
>have found the need to support such cards.
>
>If you read the hardware compatibility specs, you will
>see what is supported in the current release. The usual
>line is 'ATi mach64 based cards are OK'. Of course, if
>you see it mentioned in /lib/vgadb then this is encouraging.
>
>Support is improving, though. If you check the archives,
>you will see that a Voodoo 3 and S3 Savage drivers have been
>done, but not yet released. Matrox G200/G400 may not be far away.
>
>On the flip side, no Ati 128 bit cards are supported.
>
>Another important rule of thumb is 'does XFree86 support
>it'. This is an indication as to whether the technical
>documentation needed to write a driver is available.
>At one time certainly, Nvidia were difficult.