Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:30:08 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux-gtk and Loki demos Message-ID: <3B7AB1A0.194F40F8@mitre.org> References: <3B7A8744.484DBA26@mitre.org> <20010815171321.A40991@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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"Karel J. Bosschaart" wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:29:24AM -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: > > I'm not sure what list this should be on, but I hope the people on here > > have tried this before (and succeded). > > > > Has anybody managed to get demos from Loki that require OpenGL support > > working in FreeBSD? Basically this requires the glx extention working > > under Linux emulation and with your X server. > > > On http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ there are some pointers > on doing this. > > > I've tried installing the linux_glx port and am running FreeBSD 4.1.0 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Is that FreeBSD 4.1 or XFree86 4.1.0 ? Sorry, I ment XFree86 4.1.0 on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE. > > on a Matrox G200 with the Matrox HAL libraries. 3D acceleration works > > on FreeBSD native applications, but any time I try to start a linux > > program that uses glx it crashes the X server (with no helpful messages > > either!). > > > AFAIK, the linux_glx port is meant for Utah-glx, which works in > XFree86 3.3.6 only. I was kind of afraid of that. > > Has anybody managed to get those Loki demos working. If so, how? > > Thanks. > > > At the moment I'm still using Voodoo2, which does not require DRI nor > Utah-glx. But I hope to find time soon to try my G400 again with > Loki games. I had Quake3 running with this card in XFree86-4.0.1, and > it runs quite nice :-). I really just wanted Heavy Gear II working. It really loved it under windows, but it broke when I upgraded to Win2k for the other half of the dual boot. I was acutally looking into shelling out $25 to play it under FreeBSD and avoid dual booting altogether. :) -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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