Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:16:12 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 and fxtv Message-ID: <19991017131612.A6303@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <19991018025220.A25117@caamora.com.au> References: <199910140206.TAA07956@rah.star-gate.com> <19991017114658.A694@ipass.net> <19991018025220.A25117@caamora.com.au>
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jonathan michaels: |On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 11:46:58AM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote: |> Amancio Hasty: |> |Say is anyone having problems with fxtv and the Voodoo 3 ? |> |> I should rag you for not buying an OpenSource 3D card, but I won't ;-) | |care to recommend one, please. i'm about to get into tv on my |computer and really havent a clue where to start. i've heard bt |848 (brooktree) cards are good place to start. i'm hoping to |get a frame grabber as well. | |i've looked at the matrox g400, but don't know if it is open |source enough or if our version of xfree86 will support it. For the TV card, I think you've got the right idea. Hauppauge makes good bt848 cards. As for a 3D card with open source specs, I've attached a netnews post I made a while back that might be of some help. It has some links to get you going. In the 3D-for-the-masses 3D cards category, G400-, TNT2-, and Voodoo3-based AGP cards are currently the top-of-the-line. Of the three, only Voodoo3 doesn't have open source specs. If you want to stick with PCI for now (as I did), look for a G200- or TNT-based card (G400 and TNT2 don't come in PCI). I chose a G200. More details can be found here: http://www.ipass.net/~dbhopper/aa8vb/Matrox-G200/ Hope this helps, Randall ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm not up on the HW-accel OpenGL support for commercial X servers (Xi, Metro Link, etc.), so I'll discuss XFree86 support. AFAIK, there currently exists full open source HW-accel OpenGL using XFree86 for Matrox G200/G400 cards and RIVA 128/ZX/TNT/TNT2 cards for both FreeBSD and Linux. If you're willing to accept a non-open source, IA32-specific, Linux-specific solution add 3dfx cards to the list. Also, there's reportedly GMX2000 support in the latest XFree86 4.0 prerelease, but I don't know the details (see the snapshots page on www.xfree86.org). The GLX development efforts are still work-in-progress so there are bugs and unimplemented features here-and-there, but it generally works pretty well with most apps (on my card at least). I have a G200 running on FreeBSD with HW-accel OpenGL and am pleased with the performance. I've run a variety of apps from simple demos to OpenDX (IBM Data Explorer). Performance will only get better when DRI support is added. Here are some links to surf on XFree86/GLX HW accel which should be helpful: GLX http://glx.on.openprojects.net/ GLX for XFree86 http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/XFree86-3D-status.html XFree86 3D Status Report http://reality.sgi.com/ripperda_engr/glx/matrox_news.html SGI: GLX Acceleration for XFree86 and Linux http://www.mesa3d.org/misc/SIGGRAPH99BOF.html SIGGRAPH 1999 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes XFree86/DRI http://www.precisioninsight.com/demo.html Precision Insight "Direct Rendering Demo" 3D Software http://www.mesa3d.org/ The Mesa 3D Graphics Library 3D FreeBSD/Linux http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/ FreeBSD 3D Home Page http://www.freebsdzine.org/199907/features/tnt.html FreeBSD: Hardware OpenGL on a TNT card http://glide.xxedgexx.com/ Linux 3D http://glide.xxedgexx.com/LinuxWorld99/LinuxWorldSGML.html OpenGL/Mesa 3-D Support For Linux http://glide.xxedgexx.com/software.html 3D Software for Linux 3DFX http://www.voodooextreme.com/ Voodoo Extreme - Honey-roasted 3D gaming news... http://www-hmw.caribel.pisa.it/fxmesa/index.shtml The Mesa Voodoo driver home page http://www.netroedge.com/~phil/3dfx-howto.html 3Dfx and Mesa Howto http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html 3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc http://www.cpx-ssc.de/~y0d0004/docs/vbv3-suse-mini-howto/ VB/V3 SuSE Mini Howto http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/x-windows/voodoo3.html Linuxnewbie: Voodoo3 http://web.missouri.edu/~ccblake/ Quake2 & Q3Test with 3Dfx and LINUX http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/home/3dfx/debianv3.html debian voodoo3 guide http://www.cpx-ssc.de/~y0d0004/docs/vbv3-suse-mini-howto/html/ How to setup a Banshee/Voodoo3 under SuSE Linux TNT http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/linuxdownload NVidia TNT Server & Linux FAQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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