From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 31 15:15:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15B1814E61; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA11281; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:13:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199907312213.SAA11281@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Randall Hopper Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend References: <19990731150024.A3979@ipass.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:00:24 EDT." <19990731150024.A3979@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:13:45 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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