From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Feb 12 18:24:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from asmodean.nks.net (asmodean.nks.net [216.139.201.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FCD837B491; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:24:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joeo@localhost) by asmodean.nks.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA11083; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:24:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:24:41 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: To: Randall Hopper Cc: , "Karel J. Bosschaart" Subject: Re: DRI/Matrox: Best FreeBSD & XFree vers? (RESEND) In-Reply-To: <20010213025748.A40635@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You may want to sync up with Stephen Hocking. I believe he and someone else were working on getting the tdfx stuff up to date for stable and current. They may have included some maintenance on the non-hardware specific bits... You're way better off looking more for stability than performance. On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:38:32PM -0800, Randall Hopper wrote: > > Hi. I'm contemplating a major system update, and wanted to find out > > what the latest FreeBSD and XFree86 versions are that anyone's gotten a > > Matrox G200/400/450 working with DRI. > > > > FreeBSD 4.2-R and XFree86 4.0.1? Or do I need later for some new kernel > > bits or best performance? > > > > I found Steve Reid's excellent write-up in the archives for 4.x & 4.0.1 > > (http://wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl/freebsd/hwaccel.html), but since it's three > > months old I thought I'd check first. > > > Good to check, since this works for XFree 4.0.1 only... you can compile it > with 4.0.2 (the current XF 4 version) but will find out that drm in the > bsd subtree and the rest is out of sync, at least for Matrox cards. I got > patches from someone on this list that worked for me (4.2-STABLE and XF 4.0.2) > with G400. > > Unfortunately I'm not sure about the origin of these patches, otherwise I > would have put them next to the 4.0.1 instructions, if that would be possible. > > Drop me a mail if you want to try it out. > > Karel. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message