From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Mar 18 0:31:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C9137B587 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:31:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from cs.strath.ac.uk (scary.dmem.strath.ac.uk [130.159.202.5]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA14004 Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:28:30 GMT Message-ID: <38D33C76.3BB3F8BB@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:21:10 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: Strathclyde University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randall Hopper Cc: Steve Roome , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fxtv and XFree86 4.0 Problems References: <38C9E472.CBAFFA45@es.co.nz> <20000314212503.B3795@ipass.net> <20000315140004.C36716@moose.bri.hp.com> <20000317220117.B40248@ipass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randall > |Alternatively : move back to XFree86 3.x versions, I've been using 4.0 > |at work and it *seems to me* to be aimed somewhat more at the Linux users. > > What makes you say that? Just curious (as I haven't upgraded yet). Well, during the internal development of XFree86 4.0 lots of things were made to work on Linux first. However this is only natural. There are far more Linux hackers on the XFree86 developers list than BSD hackers. However, when it comes to actual public releases, OS differences are generally very small. DRI is the only thing I can think of which does not work on FreeBSD 'out of the box'. (or 'off the FTP site') DRI support is neeted to get hardware accleration for OpenGL. Utah-GLX 3d accleration does not work in XFree86 4.0 due to a different internal structure of XFree86. There is DRI code for the Voodoo3 and preliminary code for Matrox cards, but all for Linux Only. Fortunatly Doug Rabson is working on that and has submitted FreeBSD patches for inclusion. So, if you follow the internal development, then yes, Linux has a head start. However 99% of us use the proper released versions, and there is no problem here, except for DRI. Roger -- Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.telepresence.strath.ac.uk 0141 548 2897 roger@cs.strath.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message