From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 28 16:19:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tholian.securitydynamics.com (mail.rsasecurity.com [204.167.112.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2206337B407 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:19:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdtihq24.securid.com by tholian.securitydynamics.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 29 Oct 2001 00:15:54 UT Received: from ebola.securitydynamics.com (ebola.securid.com [192.168.7.4]) by sdtihq24.securid.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA00111 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:19:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from spirit.dynas.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ebola.securitydynamics.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id TAA13706 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:19:10 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 20187 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2001 00:19:09 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (HELO mikko.rsa.com) (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 29 Oct 2001 00:19:09 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by mikko.rsa.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9T0J5w16661; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:19:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:19:05 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200110290019.f9T0J5w16661@mikko.rsa.com> To: alex-arden@excite.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware OpenGL Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: <11614000.1004310420741.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) 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 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