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Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. 
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> According to Atipa:
> > 
> > I heard people complaining about the performance of the Voodoo Rush. I'd 
> > return that card and get a Moster or somesuch, since you are using the 
> > 2nd slot anyhow. You'd also save some money.
> 
> The performance of Voodoo is lousy. It can't handle a single 3D operation
> (in a window). Voodoo rush can handle lots. Therefor the rush has much better
> performace. :-) :-)  Quake isn't the ONLY thing you can use 3D accelerators
> for, ya know. Loosing a little fps in fullscreen can easilly be worth it if
> you gain it back elsewhere (VRLM, etc).
> 
> Not that that has any real support under XFree86, though. :-(

As you stated the the performance of the Rush is 0 in FreeBSD however
we do have support for Voodoo based boards.

The recommendation was clear : get a Voodoo based board similar
to Diamond Monster 3D . I know about Rush boards , Permedia etc...
which we don't have 3D support in FreeBSD.

> Anyone know if there are any plans to build in openGL or something,
> in XFree86? Personally I want something like X11 with OpenGL support and


Yes, there are plans to provide 3D support in Xfree86 using Mesa .

> "setenv AUDIO" support.

We already have that and is NCD's nas which works rather well on FreeBSD in
fact I use it alot to listen to my voice mail messages. NCD's nas was ported
to FreeBSD about 3 years ago.

We should be able to render VRML in a window using Voodoo based boards
just read about it in the Mesa web page.

	Amancio