Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:10:45 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers Message-ID: <20020304061045.GA2897@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0203040446480.30014-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net> References: <20020303154106.0165637B402@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0203040446480.30014-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:58:46AM -0500, joeo@cracktown.com wrote: > > Possibly a little off topic, for 3D on freebsd today you can use the > Voodoo3/4/5 (if you can find them), ATI AGP Rage128's, Matrox AGP > G400/G450's, and the current speed king is the ATI's AGP radeon line > (minus the 8x00 series). All of these companies funded Precision Insight > (later part of VA Linux) to build 3d drivers for XFree86 for their cards. > PI did thework under conditions that the sourcecode for this work be > releasable under the XFree86 license. > > The mentioned cards work with FreeBSD 4.3+ and current and the sources to > the kernel modules are available with the XFree86-4.2.0 source release. > The module sources are also installable via ports/graphics/drm-kmod. > > The setup works well enough that 3D linux games work under emulation > (sound results may vary). > And drm-kmod does not work with Matrox G400/G450 AGP cards. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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