Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:42:13 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: shahmeer@UVic.CA Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenGL Accelleration Message-ID: <20001219154213.A2241@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.30.0012191202310.43388-100000@unix4.UVic.CA>; from shahmeer@UVic.CA on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:23:28PM -0800 References: <Pine.A41.4.30.0012191202310.43388-100000@unix4.UVic.CA>
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You can use the utah-glx port to get decent hardware-accelerated OpenGL on the TNT2, although it won't use AGP/DMA, as apparently NVidia does not release the necessary docs/source to implement it. Also, I believe utah-glx only works with XFree86-3.3.6. Overall, it works well, but some GL programs will lock my machine up solid. I haven't determined what exactly causes this yet... The bzflag port, for example, will get to the point where it is testing the performance of various rendering quality levels during initialization, and when it starts to test 'highest quality' mode, the machine locks up tight as a drum. YMMV. On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:23:28PM -0800, shahmeer@UVic.CA wrote: > I was wondering if it was possible to get the linux nvidia drivers working > under freeBSD??? I have a TNT2 and was wondering if it's possible to get > OpenGL working under X?? > > I installed X 4.01 and the Nvidia GLX Drivers from source and enabled GLX > in the XF86Config file, however, i couldn't get the Nvidia Kernel driver > working. When i compiled it, it gave me several errors which i think are > attributed to it being designed for linux. > > Are there any work arounds to this like a freeBSD version of the Nvidia > driver, or modification of the source code and re-compilation to get it > working??? > > Thankx a lot for your help!!! > > Shahmeer > > P.S: Thanks for helping me out with the kernel compilation errors i was > getting last time i e-mailed you, the solution u gave me worked like a > charm :) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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