Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 13:16:38 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: freebsd@atipa.com (Atipa), multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. Message-ID: <199801042116.NAA14214@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 1998 21:18:32 %2B0100." <199801042018.VAA14132@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> According to Atipa: > > > > I heard people complaining about the performance of the Voodoo Rush. I'd > > return that card and get a Moster or somesuch, since you are using the > > 2nd slot anyhow. You'd also save some money. > > The performance of Voodoo is lousy. It can't handle a single 3D operation > (in a window). Voodoo rush can handle lots. Therefor the rush has much better > performace. :-) :-) Quake isn't the ONLY thing you can use 3D accelerators > for, ya know. Loosing a little fps in fullscreen can easilly be worth it if > you gain it back elsewhere (VRLM, etc). > > Not that that has any real support under XFree86, though. :-( As you stated the the performance of the Rush is 0 in FreeBSD however we do have support for Voodoo based boards. The recommendation was clear : get a Voodoo based board similar to Diamond Monster 3D . I know about Rush boards , Permedia etc... which we don't have 3D support in FreeBSD. > Anyone know if there are any plans to build in openGL or something, > in XFree86? Personally I want something like X11 with OpenGL support and Yes, there are plans to provide 3D support in Xfree86 using Mesa . > "setenv AUDIO" support. We already have that and is NCD's nas which works rather well on FreeBSD in fact I use it alot to listen to my voice mail messages. NCD's nas was ported to FreeBSD about 3 years ago. We should be able to render VRML in a window using Voodoo based boards just read about it in the Mesa web page. Amancio
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