Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:13:45 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend Message-ID: <199907312213.SAA11281@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:00:24 EDT." <19990731150024.A3979@ipass.net> References: <19990731150024.A3979@ipass.net>
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> I'm looking for recommendations for a good 3D board (PCI) that has 2D > & 3D hardware support in the new XFree86 pre-4.0 release. I'd prefer that > it support 3D-in-a-window and >= 1280x1024 resolution. Voodoo3? Riva128? > RivaTNT? Just today I put a Matrox G400 in my FreeBSD box, and am running the XFree86 3.3.4 server. Seems to work well for 2D stuff. I'm also playing around right now with some GLX-based 3D in a window stuff with this board. The Matrox seems to be pretty well supported by the folks doing the Mesa-in-the-X-server work (http://glx.on.openprojects.net/) I wend with the G400 rather than the RivaTNT since the current GLX support for the TNT only works in 15/16 bits per pixel, and I really wanted a 24/32 bit deep display. So far, so good. Only got the X server to hang once :-) Seriously, I now need to make sure that I'm using the recommended version of Mesa for the loadable module in the X server (rather than what was laying around in my ports directory). But it's not doomed to be completely busted since I got the OpenGL screensaves in xlock to go *really* fast compared to software rendering. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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