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To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. 
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> According to Amancio Hasty:
> > > Anyone know if there are any plans to build in openGL or something,
> > > in XFree86? Personally I want something like X11 with OpenGL support and
> > Yes, there are plans to provide 3D support in Xfree86 using Mesa .
> 
> It'd certainly be nice to get 3D support under X. That would make permedia 2
> cards a whole lot more interesting, probably, for example.
> 
> > > "setenv AUDIO" support.
> > We already have that and is NCD's nas which works rather well on FreeBSD in
> > fact I use it alot to listen to my voice mail messages. NCD's nas was ported
> > to FreeBSD about 3 years ago.
> 
> Hmm? Nothing that follows the display, is it? I mean, like the sound
> automatically going to your local machine, even though you are logged in
> through ssh to another machine, and are running a sound application there.
> Just like the graphics is automacically transfered by setting DISPLAY right
> (which ssh does for us, as we know).
> 
> And explain "NCD's nas"? :-) There are six unknown letters in there I don't
> get. What is "NCD", and what's "nas"? :-)
> 
> > We should be able to render VRML in a window using Voodoo based boards
> > just read about it in the Mesa web page.
> 
> I guess I'll have to take a look there.
> 

Yes , I can set "AUDIO",

setenv AUDIOSERVER rah:0 
or 
setenv AUDIOSERVER cioloco:0 
The later is my test box .

Think about NCD's nas as the equivalent of X but for sound.

Feel free to download nas (network audio system):

ftp:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/audio/nas

	Have Fun,
	Amancio