From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 20:40: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 508E137B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08837; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:40:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA27790; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:40:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA27786; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:40:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:40:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Dave Leimbach Cc: Josh Paetzel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVIDIA Geforce 2mx In-Reply-To: <000d01c0c879$af4979c0$e66b1e3f@home.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There are also accelerated replacements for glx and the nv driver that > comes with XF864.0.2 that Nvidia distributes for linux. There is no > BSD port of this yet. There is a petition to sign that someone set up > for this but I forget the link. In linux I can get 90fps in Quake3 > with these drivers. They are pretty fast but require a kernel module > to be loaded for the XF86 nvidia module with XF86 4.0.2> These would obviously be nice to have for FreeBSD and > others but they may not be willing to port it. > > > > There IS 3d support for the Geforce cards built into the X server, > > though. OpenGL is accelerated to some > > degree at least when Module glx is loaded in X. > > As I said before, this 3d support is on EVERY card... it's called Software OpenGL, and it's dog slow. OpenGL is not accelerated at all in this mode. I was talking about getting HARDWARE 3d support for FreeBSD on the Geforce2 MX... this is NOT supported, although I heard a few places that support is in the works. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message