Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:15:39 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 and fxtv Message-ID: <19991018181539.A2995@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <380AE547.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <199910140206.TAA07956@rah.star-gate.com> <19991017114658.A694@ipass.net> <380AE547.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk> <380AE6FE.2781@cs.strath.ac.uk> <199910140206.TAA07956@rah.star-gate.com> <19991017114658.A694@ipass.net> <380AE547.167E@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Roger Hardiman: |Randall Hopper: |> I should rag you for not buying an OpenSource 3D card, but I won't ;-) | |The full specs for the card are on the 3d fx developers web site, |and are freely available. ... |Let me reword that. |The 2D specs are available. |I was under the impression the Voodoo 3 2d core was the same |as the Banshee 2D core. And the banshee specs are available. Right. 2D available. 3D still requires a binary-only piece like libglide. Last I hear, the latter still isn't available native for FreeBSD. So (barring hacks), support only for those OSs 3dfx supports, and for those OSs which can emulate one of those platforms (assuming its users don't mind the headache and overhead associated with cross-compiling and emulating 3D). Not me. More power to nVidia and Matrox. I'm glad to see John Carmack and friends chose OpenSource 3D cards to start with. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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