Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 15:16:58 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. Message-ID: <1503.883869418@time.cdrom.com>
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Well, I posted a nice 3 page message to freebsd-multimedia yesterday which contained a complete synopsis of the 3DFX market as I was able to determine it through browsing the web and talking to folks, but then of course Majordomo ate it (along with a lot of other freebsd mail yesterday) and I haven't the heart to type it all back in again. :-( To give you the short version this time: I'm interested in playing with the 3DFX voodoo chipset and buying an add-on board for this (I'd like to keep my Millenium, so I don't want a complete replacement VGA card). I've looked around and the major players seem to be Diamond, with the Monster3D, Orchid with the Righteous 3D and Canopus with the Pure3D card. Of the 3, the Canopus product seems the most advanced, with 4MB of texture memory vs the 2MB of the other cards (frame buffer is still 2MB). It's also fairly cheap at $179 street price, and definitely seems to be the one to get if you can find one - Canopus claims back-orders all through January so far. Then there's the Voodoo2 chipset which 3DFX claims is 3X faster than the Voodoo Rush, but I don't see any mfrs actually doing boards based on them. Any pointers? Finally, anyone working on FreeBSD drivers for this so we can play with Mesa and rendering things at high speed? :-) Thanks! Jordan
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