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> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [3dgraphics] Mesa3dfx/glide works on FreeBSD 8) Message-ID: <19970807090904.11966@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199708070218.TAA10322@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> on Wed, Aug 06, 1997 at 07:18:22PM -0700 References: <199708070218.TAA10322@rah.star-gate.com>
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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
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