Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:40:03 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvidia cards (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <20010414224003.C1052@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3AD1584F.D28ADF0C@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:35:59PM %2B1000 References: <3AD1584F.D28ADF0C@quake.com.au>
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Kal Torak: |I am wondering about support for 3D accelerators like the GeForce and |other nvidia cards under FreeBSD... There are Linux drivers for these |cards, but no ports it seems to FreeBSD... Yep, closed source drivers -- your gripe is with NVidia. You need to post to an NVidia mailing list. |I have heard that there is no or very little OpenGL support |for FreeBSD... Anyway, any tips, info or pointers would be |greatly appreciated :) OpenGL has been there for a long while, thanks to Mesa. But presumably you mean hardware-accelerated OpenGL support. Check out the mailing list archives for the word "DRI". Searches on "GLX" will turn up useful info as well. Go with a card like a Matrox G200/G400/G450 AGP, and (my understanding at least is) you can get hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Also, Voodoo* PCI/AGP and some ATI AGP/PCI might give it to you too. Search around for details. Don't get a Matrox G200 PCI (assuming you can still get your hands on one) -- PCI Matrox isn't supported in XFree86 DRI yet. If you want more links and mailing list references to XFree86/DRI, let me know. Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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