Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:49:09 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 and fxtv Message-ID: <199910190149.SAA65792@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:15:39 EDT." <19991018181539.A2995@ipass.net>
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Glide is a propieratory 3d interface however as you well know there is very strong movement in XFree86 to deploy 3d assist opengl. Best Regards > Roger Hardiman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> I should rag you for not buying an OpenSource 3D card, but I won't ;-) > | > |The full specs for the card are on the 3d fx developers web site, > |and are freely available. > ... > |Let me reword that. > |The 2D specs are available. > |I was under the impression the Voodoo 3 2d core was the same > |as the Banshee 2D core. And the banshee specs are available. > > Right. 2D available. 3D still requires a binary-only piece like libglide. > Last I hear, the latter still isn't available native for FreeBSD. > > So (barring hacks), support only for those OSs 3dfx supports, and for those > OSs which can emulate one of those platforms (assuming its users don't mind > the headache and overhead associated with cross-compiling and emulating > 3D). Not me. More power to nVidia and Matrox. I'm glad to see John > Carmack and friends chose OpenSource 3D cards to start with. > > Randall > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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