From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Feb 6 23:31:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17820 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0716.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.190.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17814 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:31:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA13795; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:31:31 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:31:31 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker 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...? In-Reply-To: <199902070019.BAA01555@oranje.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message