From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 8 6:50:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5C51517F for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 06:50:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from norn@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D563E145C; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 06:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 06:50:11 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: Fred Jacobs Cc: FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potential port of XF86_SVGA + riva_glx Message-ID: <19990608065011.A848@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <19990608061819.B177@mail.31337.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <19990608061819.B177@mail.31337.com>; from Fred Jacobs on Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:18:19AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD norn.ca.eu.org 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:18:19AM -0500, Fred Jacobs wrote: > I have successfully built the software required to utilize the nvidia > riva TNT chipset of 3d graphics hardware for hardware-accelerated mesa3d/GLX, > in X. (Whew, that's a mouth full) nVidia posted recently documentation on > making this work, and after various hacking and slashing, I have it up and > running. The build procedure, however, was rather unpleasant. Ideally this > sort of thing would go into ports, but I haven't submitted a port myself > asofyet. Therefore I'd like to ask what direction to go in now, and to share > what information I have in case another individual might wish to work on such > a port. > I'm not sure that this warrants a port; it will be included in XFree86 4.0, no? (FWIW, I didn't find the build procedure _that_ bad ;-) -- Chris Piazza Abbotsford, BC, Canada cpiazza@home.net finger norn@norn.ca.eu.org for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message