From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 13:42:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gladstone.uoregon.edu (gladstone.uoregon.edu [128.223.142.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07B537B407 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:42:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (d184-101.uoregon.edu [128.223.184.101]) by gladstone.uoregon.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f9SLga129805; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:42:36 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200110282142.f9SLga129805@gladstone.uoregon.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric Anholt Reply-To: eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware OpenGL Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:40:34 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <24417885.1004231095020.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com> In-Reply-To: <24417885.1004231095020.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com> Cc: Alex Arden MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The FreeBSD Nvidia project is effectively dead because NVidia won't help them out with errors they are getting. However, we do have HW 3d acceleration for 3dfx Voodoo3/4/5/Banshee, MGA Gx00, and ATI r128/radeon cards through the DRI. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ On Saturday 27 October 2001 18:04, you wrote: > Preface: this is not for games; it is for education and computational > geometry (just thought I'd mention my purposes are other than > recreational). > > Are there any OpenGL cards which FreeBSD fully supports? Any at all? > What I mean is full hardware acceleration plus an OpenGL > implementation for the card (not Mesa). I am willing to pay ANY price > for such a card. I am aware there is a FreeBSD/NVidia project started > on SourceForge, but it doesn't look like they will have something > working anytime soon (I signed the petition). > > Let's suppose my distaste for Linux is equal to my distaste for > non-hardware-accelerated graphics. Stated in the positive, I *really* > like FreeBSD but also *really* want to do some computational geometry > at home. Do I have any options? > > Please CC me if you respond. > > Thanks. > > --Alex > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Send a cool gift with your E-Card > http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Eric Anholt eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message