Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 06:50:11 -0700 From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net> To: Fred Jacobs <lb@enteract.com> Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potential port of XF86_SVGA + riva_glx Message-ID: <19990608065011.A848@norn.ca.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19990608061819.B177@mail.31337.com>; from Fred Jacobs on Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:18:19AM -0500 References: <19990608061819.B177@mail.31337.com>
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On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:18:19AM -0500, Fred Jacobs wrote:
> I have successfully built the software required to utilize the nvidia
> riva TNT chipset of 3d graphics hardware for hardware-accelerated mesa3d/GLX,
> in X. (Whew, that's a mouth full) nVidia posted recently documentation on
> making this work, and after various hacking and slashing, I have it up and
> running. The build procedure, however, was rather unpleasant. Ideally this
> sort of thing would go into ports, but I haven't submitted a port myself
> asofyet. Therefore I'd like to ask what direction to go in now, and to share
> what information I have in case another individual might wish to work on such
> a port.
>
<snip>
I'm not sure that this warrants a port; it will be included in XFree86
4.0, no? (FWIW, I didn't find the build procedure _that_ bad ;-)
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