Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:31:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Christopher Masta <chris@netmonger.net>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo3? [was Re: GLX Xserver for FreeBSD?] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003060930250.8714-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000306085920.D14350@cons.org>
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote: > In <200003060756.CAA99613@otter.blackberry.net>, Christopher Masta wrote: > > Forgive me if I'm missing something, but there are a lot of layers. > > > > Isn't software still needed to drive the Voodoo 3.. Glade? DRI is the X interface to it, but the driver still needs to be ported to FreeBSD, right? Or is it possible to get accelerated OpenGL now? > > [please break lines < 80 chars] > > Glide is it. Since 3dfx put out documentation for their chips, you > don't strictly need the Glide layer, although it may be convinient. > Don't know what the DRI do. FreeBSD support for voodoo3 in glide has been committed to the glide CVS tree. Adding FreeBSD support for voodoo2 would be pretty easy. There is definately scope for a port here but I don't have the time to deal with it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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