Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:19:05 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> To: alex-arden@excite.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware OpenGL Message-ID: <200110290019.f9T0J5w16661@mikko.rsa.com> References: <11614000.1004310420741.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com>
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In local.freebsd.questions you write: >Correct me if I'm wrong, but having hardware acceleration for these >cards does not mean OpenGL acceleration. I would be using software It should. >rendering with Mesa with these cards, correct? That's orders of >magnitude slower than hardware OpenGL --- an OpenGL implementation >which serves as an interface to the hardware. I guess such a thing >doesn't exist for FreeBSD; I was just hoping there was some avenue >which I haven't discovered yet. You need the XFree86-4 port + the drm-kmod port. And a supported graphics card (as listed below). $.02, /Mikko >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/ [...] -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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