From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 31 12:23:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57E637BBE4 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e6VJNkB86427; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:23:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Chris BeHanna Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Video card support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Chris BeHanna wrote: > I don't remember if it was this list on which I saw this > discussion, or if it was hackers. Anyway, I looked at xfree86.org > today, and noticed that there is accelerated support for ATI Mach64 > and for NVIDIA TNT2 and GeForce256 boards, as well as many others. > > Is there some reason why this isn't "good enough," or do we > really need actual drivers for these boards to get at their > extra-nifty features (e.g., hardware backface culling, fog, bump maps, > etc.)? That acceleration usually refers to 2D acceleration -- rectangle drawing and so forth. XFree86 4.X adds support for DRI, a direct-to-hardware interface for accessing the 3D hardware on the card. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message