Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 14:02:46 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: freebsd@atipa.com, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. Message-ID: <199801042202.OAA14582@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 1998 22:56:05 %2B0100." <199801042156.WAA14351@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> According to Amancio Hasty: > > > Anyone know if there are any plans to build in openGL or something, > > > in XFree86? Personally I want something like X11 with OpenGL support and > > Yes, there are plans to provide 3D support in Xfree86 using Mesa . > > It'd certainly be nice to get 3D support under X. That would make permedia 2 > cards a whole lot more interesting, probably, for example. > > > > "setenv AUDIO" support. > > We already have that and is NCD's nas which works rather well on FreeBSD in > > fact I use it alot to listen to my voice mail messages. NCD's nas was ported > > to FreeBSD about 3 years ago. > > Hmm? Nothing that follows the display, is it? I mean, like the sound > automatically going to your local machine, even though you are logged in > through ssh to another machine, and are running a sound application there. > Just like the graphics is automacically transfered by setting DISPLAY right > (which ssh does for us, as we know). > > And explain "NCD's nas"? :-) There are six unknown letters in there I don't > get. What is "NCD", and what's "nas"? :-) > > > We should be able to render VRML in a window using Voodoo based boards > > just read about it in the Mesa web page. > > I guess I'll have to take a look there. > Yes , I can set "AUDIO", setenv AUDIOSERVER rah:0 or setenv AUDIOSERVER cioloco:0 The later is my test box . Think about NCD's nas as the equivalent of X but for sound. Feel free to download nas (network audio system): ftp:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/audio/nas Have Fun, Amancio
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