Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 00:13:44 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [3dgraphics] Mesa3dfx/glide works on FreeBSD 8) Message-ID: <199708070713.AAA00783@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Aug 1997 09:09:04 %2B0200." <19970807090904.11966@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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http://www.3dfx.com 3dfx is the name of a company which makes a line of 3d hardware accelerators chipsets. Voodoo Rush refers to one of their chipset models found in the Diamond Monster 3D card which is what I have over here. The rumor is that many game companies are rushing to support this particular chipset because according to many gamers is one of the best 3d hardware chipsets for games. Mesa3dfx/glide is 3d hardware support for the Voodoo Rush chipset. So in a nutshell, we will soon (I hope) enjoy accelerated GL support for Voodoo Rush based boards. Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Christoph Kukulies : > 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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