From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: GeForce on PPC == _no work_ From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Ani Joshi Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 29 Oct 2001 18:26:48 +0100 Message-Id: <1004376408.20679.661.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 18:21, Ani Joshi wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > also FreeBSD people, since they also can't use nVidia's binary drivers. I > > > hope he has some success. > > > > don't hold your breath, you might suffocate. > > Hmm, its nice to see such pessimism from the community. Perhaps instead, > you could try helping, but I suppose that's too much to ask from some. > > Anyhow, companies *do* change their policies with the proper polite > lobbying. This includes nVidia. I don't see the point of begging them for support though if there are other companies who already support us. Someone (Bastien Nocera IIRC) asked nVidia at a show if they planned to release their drivers for PPC in the future, and they said no. Not even maybe... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/