Rudolf Cornellisen has whipped up something special for owners of NVidia video cards.

His work continues unabated, despite his busy schedule, and today he's started on version 0.08 of his NVidia TNT/GeForce driver for OpenBeOS.

Sweeeet.

Here's a few words from Rudolf:

"Hi there! Got some good news for you today. Tonight I started on driverversion 0.08. And the first fix
is.. (drumrol ;-).. FX5600! Thanks to a collegue of mine I've got a GeForce FX5600 for a few days to finally fix the fault we are experiencing. It turns out nVidia changed the PLL on me, and the acceleration engine restrictions. I've nailed the first problem (PLL - no picture), so now I only have to determine the actual engine restrictions before the FX 5600 is officially supported.

On a seperate note, I can tell you that the nVidia, Matrox and NeoMagic drivers are now in openBeOS CVS. This means I will do further developing via CVS if all goes right. I'll keep releasing new driverversions here in the way you are used to though. I want to thank Andrew Bachmann for doing the initial checkins and polishing for me, so I won't loose time over this. Thanks Andrew!

OK, that's it. I got one more thing to say at this moment: Merry Christmas to you all! (Talk to you later ;-)"

So this is super news indeed. OpenBeOS gains even more support for a kick butt video card (I know, because my roomie has one), and Rudolf edges that much closer to completing his great work.

Thanks Rudolf, and merry xmas too, from all of us here at TBJ.