Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:24:44 -0500 (EST) From: <joeo@cracktown.com> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OpenGL Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201031619460.859-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net> In-Reply-To: <20020103152917.A1658@nc.rr.com>
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For a patch for the AMD 7xx northbridge chipset for 4.4-RELEASE check pr32301 in the open bug reports. On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Randall Hopper wrote: > Doug White: > |> I was wondering what the support for OpenGL was like > |> for FreeBSD and whether it is hard ware accelerated > |> under X. > | > |With some hackery, it is supported. > | > |Check out: > | > |http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/index.html > | > |> Xfree 4.0X > | > |You'll have to base from 4.1, hope that's okay. I'm using DRI fine on > |4.2-R with a Matrox G200. > > It's also important to verify that agpgart supports your motherboard's > northbridge chipset. > > Case in point: I upgraded my system last summer and have a Matrox G450 AGP > but have never gotten H/W acceleration going here because no one had added > support for my AMD761 northbridge to the agpgart drivers. > ...Re-researching just now, I see somebody added it to -current a few weeks > ago (hurray!), but I run -stable and I don't know if this has been MFCed > yet. Maybe my wait is over!? At any rate, I recommend you check first. > > Good luck! > > Randall > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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