Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:49:20 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GLX Xserver for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20000301114920.A6827@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20000301114511.B38017@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:45:11AM %2B0100 References: <200003011009.LAA37864@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000301113408.A79072@cons.org> <20000301114511.B38017@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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In <20000301114511.B38017@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:34:08AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <200003011009.LAA37864@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > > > While playing with 3D stuff again I came across > > > > > > http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html > > > > > > Does anyone know about the situation for FreeBSD? > > > > Start from > > /usr/ports/graphics/glx > > http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Be warned that the GLX project in its current form will probably > > go into the DRI project. > > And in how far is this something dangerous :-) ? Well, I guess from your > wording that it could become something 'proprietary'. No, it's fine from a technology and freedom standpoint. It's just that if you settle on the current GLX structure today, you may quickly be forced to change again. But for now, GLX is more useful than DRI (unless you use a Voodoo3 card). Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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