From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Aug 16 19:07:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24107 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24102 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 19:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA10636; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:35:55 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199808170205.LAA10636@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Christopher R. Bowman" cc: "M. L. Dodson" , Harold Gutch , Donald Burr , FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: 3dfx thingie (GLIDE) for FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Aug 1998 13:15:51 -0400." <199808141819.NAA02017@quark.ChrisBowman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:35:54 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Yes it would, that's the whole reason to port the glide layer to FreeBSD, > cause then you can take advantage of Mesas already existent support for the > glide layer and run OpenGL using hardware acceleration. I have even heard > that the current Linux glide layer can be run on FreeBSD under emulation, > though I would make sure before I went out and bought a card. Yes, it works fine :) I run Quake 1 and 2 which use Mesa for their 3d stuff, and it works nicely on my Voodoo 1 :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message