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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 08:59:20 +0100
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Christopher Masta <chris@netmonger.net>
Cc:        cracauer@cons.org, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Voodoo3? [was Re: GLX Xserver for FreeBSD?]
Message-ID:  <20000306085920.D14350@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <200003060756.CAA99613@otter.blackberry.net>; from chris@netmonger.net on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:54:11AM -0400
References:  <200003060756.CAA99613@otter.blackberry.net>

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In <200003060756.CAA99613@otter.blackberry.net>, Christopher Masta wrote: 
> Forgive me if I'm missing something, but there are a lot of layers.
> 
> Isn't software still needed to drive the Voodoo 3.. Glade?  DRI is the X interface to it, but the driver still needs to be ported to FreeBSD, right?  Or is it possible to get accelerated OpenGL now?

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Glide is it. Since 3dfx put out documentation for their chips, you
don't strictly need the Glide layer, although it may be convinient.
Don't know what the DRI do.

Martin
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