From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 18: 0:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CF81510F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from poseidon (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.220.99]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA29832; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:00:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000901beffde$cb0e7ee0$63dc0281@umd.edu> From: "Brandon Fosdick" To: "Francis J. Bruening" , , References: Subject: Re: X problems Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:59:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Brandon, > > I'm just getting ready to try to install FBSD w/a Viper 770Ultra. > > I saw the article on freebsdzine re: OpenGL and the TNT cards, but I thought > that was simply > if you wanted to get 3d performance out of the card, which is a different > problem than your mail. > > What article are you refering too? They are the instructions for 3D hardware acceleration. However, (I think)when the article was written the 2D changes hadn't been incorpated into XFree86 yet (3.3.3.1) so the first step in the article takes care of that. Version 3.3.5 has the 2D mods but not in the binaries(as far as I can tell), you have to compile from the port. If you want hardware accelerated 3D then follow the instructions but don't apply the X patches. If you do try applying the XFree diffs then patch will fail and it won't compile anymore. If Jordan doesn't feel like updating the article I'd be willing to write an addendum to reflect the mods. Although the coming version 4.0 may make that unecessary. Hope that helps Brandon bfoz@glue.umd.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message