From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Aug 17 06:51:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08084 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 06:51:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08076 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 06:51:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) id IAA00204; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:46:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:46:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808171346.IAA00204@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: "Christopher R. Bowman" , Harold Gutch , Donald Burr , FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: 3dfx thingie (GLIDE) for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199808170205.LAA10636@cain.gsoft.com.au> References: <199808141819.NAA02017@quark.ChrisBowman.com> <199808170205.LAA10636@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > Yes it would, that's the whole reason to port the glide layer to FreeBSD, > > cause then you can take advantage of Mesas already existent support for the > > glide layer and run OpenGL using hardware acceleration. I have even heard > > that the current Linux glide layer can be run on FreeBSD under emulation, > > though I would make sure before I went out and bought a card. > Yes, it works fine :) I run Quake 1 and 2 which use Mesa for their 3d stuff, > and it works nicely on my Voodoo 1 :) > [elided] Hmmmmm...... I haven't had such good luck running molecular modeling (structural biochemistry) s/w compiled for Linux/Mesa or my FBSD system (just writing to X, of course, I've no glide-aware hardware). However, I must say that the quality of the programming, based on other s/w I've tried to compile from the same people, who shall remain nameless, indicates a certain lack of appreciation for the nuances, e.g., multiple free-ing of same pointer ;-), so it is very possible it was the modeling s/w and not the Linux emulation at fault. Bud Dodson > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message