From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 11 8:10:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (sol.serv.u-szeged.hu [160.114.51.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDC437B401 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:10:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu) Received: from petra.hos.u-szeged.hu by sol.serv.u-szeged.hu (8.9.3+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id RAA20447; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:10:29 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sziszi by petra.hos.u-szeged.hu with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 159TKl-0007yG-00 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:10:27 +0200 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:10:27 +0200 From: Szilveszter Adam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: Re: 3d card question Message-ID: <20010611171027.F20145@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Mail-Followup-To: Szilveszter Adam , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Eric Anholt asked me to forward his reply to my mail about 3d cards on FreeBSD to this list, so here it is for everybody's benefit. BTW: The TNT2 is claimed to be supported by utah-glx (in the ports) under XFree86-3.3.6. Regards: Szilveszter ----- Forwarded message from Eric Anholt ----- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:40:21 -0700 From: Eric Anholt To: Szilveszter Adam Subject: Re: 3d card question X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 There is no support for TNT2 3d at the moment, although a group is working on it (http://nvidia.netexplorer.org). The Savage4 is definitely not supported for 3d. The Voodoo3 is supported by the DRI drivers (see http://www.teleport.com/~anholt/devel/dri), but there are some bugs (graphics errors at the highest mipmap level) and it is not as fast as the TNT2. The Voodoo3/4/5, MGA, and Rage128 are currently supported for DRI. Feel free to forward this to the list. I am unable to because my smtp host is blocked from FreeBSD.org. On 2001.06.11 03:31 Szilveszter Adam wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I know full well that this list is not an XFree86 support forum so if you > feel that I am way off topic then please feel free to ignore me, but I do > not think this sort of thing gets a lot of mention on the XFree lists as > it > pertains to FreeBSD specifically. Also, sorry for cross-posting, my > intention is not to spam... > > The question is: I have a recent -CURRENT system and have the opportunity > to buy (approx in the same price range) a Vodoo3 2000 card, a TNT2 based > one, (nVidia Riva TNT2 PRO 32 MB AGP) or an S3 Savage4 PRO 32 MB card. > Which is better as far as hardware > based 3D support (OpenGL) goes? My existing card is very good at 2D so > the > only reason I would want to change is to be able to use 3D on FreeBSD... > > Thank you very much for any insights and please Cc: me, I am not (yet:-) > on > the list. > > -- > Regards: > > Szilveszter ADAM > Szeged University > Szeged Hungary > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Regards: Szilveszter ADAM Szeged University Szeged Hungary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message