Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:31:31 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Something to show off...? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902070328580.368-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199902070019.BAA01555@oranje.my.domain>
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On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Marc van Woerkom wrote:
> > I'm running a PII-266 as CPU, 128Meg of RAM and a Creative Graphics
> > Blaster RivaTNT video card with 16Meg of RAM on it...does that count? :)
> > Actually, with that, I was impressed with how responsive Blender was, but
> > I'm curious as to how much of that is the CPU vs the video card, so will
> > be downgrading the video card later this evening to see ...
>
> I am not sure (forgive me, if I am wrong - was absent a while) if you
> guys do realize that the RIVA chip's 3-D features are not used at all
> under FreeBSD.
>From talking to the guy at nVidia, he mentioned that there was
acceleration built into the XFree86 server itself...I took this to include
the 3D stuff also...is this incorrect?
> This stuff will be in binary form only, but he seems to be willing to
> do *BSD ones too .. and he will work on graphics drivers too.
I've talked to him too, and *BSD drivers are much low on their list of
priorities...I may be mis-quoting, but he mentioned that alot of it had to
do with how *our* GGI stuff progresses...?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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