From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 3 22:10:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABCB37B404 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 22:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16hlgM-000DBh-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Mar 2002 06:10:47 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 86DA413040 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:10:45 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 419EE22593; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:10:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:10:45 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: NVIDIA 3D FreeBSD Drivers Message-ID: <20020304061045.GA2897@raggedclown.net> References: <20020303154106.0165637B402@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 04:58:46AM -0500, joeo@cracktown.com wrote: > > Possibly a little off topic, for 3D on freebsd today you can use the > Voodoo3/4/5 (if you can find them), ATI AGP Rage128's, Matrox AGP > G400/G450's, and the current speed king is the ATI's AGP radeon line > (minus the 8x00 series). All of these companies funded Precision Insight > (later part of VA Linux) to build 3d drivers for XFree86 for their cards. > PI did thework under conditions that the sourcecode for this work be > releasable under the XFree86 license. > > The mentioned cards work with FreeBSD 4.3+ and current and the sources to > the kernel modules are available with the XFree86-4.2.0 source release. > The module sources are also installable via ports/graphics/drm-kmod. > > The setup works well enough that 3D linux games work under emulation > (sound results may vary). > And drm-kmod does not work with Matrox G400/G450 AGP cards. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message