Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:13:28 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Marc van Woerkom <van.woerkom@netcologne.de> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3D board for XFree86 GLX - Please recommend Message-ID: <19990801111328.A1342@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <199907312000.WAA00709@oranje.my.domain>; from Marc van Woerkom on Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:00:49PM %2B0200 References: <19990731150024.A3979@ipass.net> <199907312000.WAA00709@oranje.my.domain>
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Marc van Woerkom:
|> 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?
|
|The current snapshot 3.9.15 does only feature a limited set of cards.
|E.g. no RIVA (nv) chipset drivers yet. (*)
...
|I would be very supprised if the nvidia chips would get no XF 4 support.
Thanks for the reply.
From a few previously posted URLs (attached), it sounds like official
NVidia NV1, 128, TNT, and TNT2 support may not be far off. According to
NVidia, they've releasing source code and with the same license as XFree86.
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Anyone heard anything definite about NVidia's drivers being pulled into
XFree86 4.0?
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As I'm limited to PCI, I'm most interested in:
- NVidia TNT, and
- Voodoo3
3D boards. In MSWindows reviews, Voodoo3 sounds like the fastest PCI
performer. And it appears that Voodoo3 "may" be supported in XFree86:
http://www.xfree86.org/snapshots/3.9.15/RELNOTES1.html#10
(glide is listed). But I've not heard from someone who has a Voodoo3
working with an XFree86 4.0 pre-release, to what extent it is functional,
and how much of the driver source code is freely available (to factor in
long-term support).
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Anyone have a Voodoo3 working in 2D/3D with XFree86?
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Thanks,
Randall
TNT/TNT2 GLX links:
Jordon: http://www.freebsdzine.org/199907/features/tnt.html
and: http://glx.on.openprojects.net/faq.html
http://www.nvidia.com/developer.nsf/htmlmedia/devMainFR_top.html
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