Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:31:31 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something to show off...? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902070328580.368-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199902070019.BAA01555@oranje.my.domain>
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On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Marc van Woerkom wrote: > > I'm running a PII-266 as CPU, 128Meg of RAM and a Creative Graphics > > Blaster RivaTNT video card with 16Meg of RAM on it...does that count? :) > > Actually, with that, I was impressed with how responsive Blender was, but > > I'm curious as to how much of that is the CPU vs the video card, so will > > be downgrading the video card later this evening to see ... > > I am not sure (forgive me, if I am wrong - was absent a while) if you > guys do realize that the RIVA chip's 3-D features are not used at all > under FreeBSD. >From talking to the guy at nVidia, he mentioned that there was acceleration built into the XFree86 server itself...I took this to include the 3D stuff also...is this incorrect? > This stuff will be in binary form only, but he seems to be willing to > do *BSD ones too .. and he will work on graphics drivers too. I've talked to him too, and *BSD drivers are much low on their list of priorities...I may be mis-quoting, but he mentioned that alot of it had to do with how *our* GGI stuff progresses...? Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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