From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 15:33:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gigi.excite.com (gigi.excite.com [199.172.152.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED1C37B403 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from doodle.excite.com ([199.172.153.125]) by gigi.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20011028233351.EXQF23489.gigi.excite.com@doodle.excite.com>; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:33:51 -0800 Message-ID: <14049702.1004312031926.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:33:51 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Arden To: eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware OpenGL Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 66.3.230.250 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 I just discovered another option. For $100 I can buy Xi Graphics' X server for FreeBSD which supports hardware OpenGL and many different cards. Are there and FreeBSDers which use this X server? --Alex On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:40:34 -0800, eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________________ 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