From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 14 19:39: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (mail7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C0437B42C; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:38:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) Received: from stealth.dummynet ([24.25.3.190]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:38:51 -0400 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.dummynet (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f3F2e3Q01414; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:40:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 22:40:03 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Kal Torak Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nvidia cards (3D Acceleration) Message-ID: <20010414224003.C1052@nc.rr.com> References: <3AD1584F.D28ADF0C@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AD1584F.D28ADF0C@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 04:35:59PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kal Torak: |I am wondering about support for 3D accelerators like the GeForce and |other nvidia cards under FreeBSD... There are Linux drivers for these |cards, but no ports it seems to FreeBSD... Yep, closed source drivers -- your gripe is with NVidia. You need to post to an NVidia mailing list. |I have heard that there is no or very little OpenGL support |for FreeBSD... Anyway, any tips, info or pointers would be |greatly appreciated :) OpenGL has been there for a long while, thanks to Mesa. But presumably you mean hardware-accelerated OpenGL support. Check out the mailing list archives for the word "DRI". Searches on "GLX" will turn up useful info as well. Go with a card like a Matrox G200/G400/G450 AGP, and (my understanding at least is) you can get hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Also, Voodoo* PCI/AGP and some ATI AGP/PCI might give it to you too. Search around for details. Don't get a Matrox G200 PCI (assuming you can still get your hands on one) -- PCI Matrox isn't supported in XFree86 DRI yet. If you want more links and mailing list references to XFree86/DRI, let me know. Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message