From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 9 1:49:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A8B1505F; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24886; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:49:10 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:49:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Reilly Cc: Mike Smith , The Hermit Hacker , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Terry Lambert , sos@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, yokota@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GGI In-Reply-To: <19990309200037.A14630@reilly.home> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 09:03:57PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Since the voodoo2 is a 3d card, and X is exclusively 2d, I can't quite > > see how "supporting" this card actually achieves anything. > > Isn't the PEX extension some sort of 3D thing? I never hear > anyone talk about it, so perhaps there's something wrong with > it, but couldn't some sort of 3D acceleration be built around > it? PEX is several years away from the cutting edge of graphics. I'm not sure that it even supports texture mapping. A better base for working on 3D acceleration is Mesa which is exactly what the guys at Precision Insight (www.precisioninsight.com) are doing to create a decent modern 3D solution for Linux and BSD. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message