Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 00:18:14 -0500 From: "Charles Anderson" <caa@columbus.rr.com> To: Theo van Klaveren <havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl> Cc: patrick@whetstonelogic.com, joe@via.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the best accellerated graphics card for XF86? Message-ID: <19991225001814.A97034@midgard.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912240054190.593-100000@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl>; from havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl on Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 12:58:34AM %2B0100 References: <199912232353.SAA69429@p.wl.vg> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912240054190.593-100000@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 12:58:34AM +0100, Theo van Klaveren wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 patrick@whetstonelogic.com wrote: > > > On 23 Dec, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > > > > > Now tha GLIDE for FreeBSD is available, what's the best video card > > > for playing quake, etc? > > > > > Well, since GLIDE only support 3DFX cards, I'd say your choice is > pretty limited :) > > Besides that, the port I've done only supports the (now ancient) > Voodoo Graphics based cards. For Voodoo2/3, look at Doug Rabson's > patches to the original source code. > GLX works pretty good with my g400 max, It get 37.4 fps at 640x480 Normal settings with quake3. > > > > And, who is going to build us a FreeBSD Quake 1, now that the source is > > out! > > Sorry, I only got as far as the server so far :-) I've built glquake but I still has some bugs to work out. > > The X11 client built, but there is a bug in Quake's assembly code > (methinks) that produces a SIGBUS in memset() ... haven't investigated > thourougly(sp?) yet. > > I'll try and build the GL client, but I haven't got high hopes... > If anyone is intersted, I can give you my patches to the QuakeWorld > code (it fixes the Linux CDROM code and some other Linux specific > thingies). See above, the gl code was actually pretty easy on a first pass sort of thing. (Notice I'm not saying it's usable yet.) > > Theo van Klaveren <havoc@phoenix.student.utwente.nl> > http://phoenix.student.utwente.nl / ICQ #1353681 > > - Why, oh why didn't I take the _blue_ pill? > -Charlie -- Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com No quote, no nothin' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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