Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:33:51 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Arden <alex-arden@excite.com> To: eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware OpenGL Message-ID: <14049702.1004312031926.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com>
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I just discovered another option. For $100 I can buy Xi Graphics' X server for FreeBSD which supports hardware OpenGL and many different cards. Are there and FreeBSDers which use this X server? --Alex On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:40:34 -0800, eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu wrote: > The FreeBSD Nvidia project is effectively dead because NVidia won't help them > out with errors they are getting. However, we do have HW 3d acceleration for > 3dfx Voodoo3/4/5/Banshee, MGA Gx00, and ATI r128/radeon cards through the DRI. > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ > > On Saturday 27 October 2001 18:04, you wrote: > > Preface: this is not for games; it is for education and computational > > geometry (just thought I'd mention my purposes are other than > > recreational). > > > > Are there any OpenGL cards which FreeBSD fully supports? Any at all? > > What I mean is full hardware acceleration plus an OpenGL > > implementation for the card (not Mesa). I am willing to pay ANY price > > for such a card. I am aware there is a FreeBSD/NVidia project started > > on SourceForge, but it doesn't look like they will have something > > working anytime soon (I signed the petition). > > > > Let's suppose my distaste for Linux is equal to my distaste for > > non-hardware-accelerated graphics. Stated in the positive, I *really* > > like FreeBSD but also *really* want to do some computational geometry > > at home. Do I have any options? > > > > Please CC me if you respond. > > > > Thanks. > > > > --Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Send a cool gift with your E-Card > > http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Eric Anholt > eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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