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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:09:04 +0200
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Subject: Re: [3dgraphics] Mesa3dfx/glide works on FreeBSD 8)
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On Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 07:18:22PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> So right now , I am running the Mesa demo "gears" running on my
> second monitor 8) So at the very least the alpha release of the 
> Mesa/3dfx  driver works on FreeBSD. 

Could you elaborate a bit more what's the idea behind it? Is the 3Dfx a 
piece of hardware? Is this a driver to a new interface standard?
I was able to acquire an ELSA Gloria 8L card for 200 bucks recently.
Would I be able to use it. Or what hardware does 3Dfx refer to?

> 
> Kind of cool to have "real-time" 3d hardware on FreeBSD 8)
> 
> Hopefully, glquake will come out in a week or so 
> 
> 	Enjoy,
> 	Amancio
> 
> 
> Tnks to :
> Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR> for pointing where the new 
> 3dfx mesa driver
> 
> and Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> for showing me how to compile
> linux binaries on my system:
> "There is a package
> 
> you need:
> 
> linux_devel-0.2.tgz
> linux_lib-2.4.tgz
> 
> I use this all the time to compile linux binaries with a linux
> database library."
> 
> 
> 	
> 
> 

-- 
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de