Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:30:08 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu> To: Alex Arden <alex-arden@excite.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware OpenGL Message-ID: <200110290832.f9T8W9109597@gladstone.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <11614000.1004310420741.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com> References: <11614000.1004310420741.JavaMail.imail@doodle.excite.com>
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By hardware 3d acceleration I meant hardware OpenGL acceleration. I have never used the Xi server, and haven't heard from people who do how it compares. On Sunday 28 October 2001 15:07, Alex Arden wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but having hardware acceleration for these > cards does not mean OpenGL acceleration. I would be using software > rendering with Mesa with these cards, correct? That's orders of > magnitude slower than hardware OpenGL --- an OpenGL implementation > which serves as an interface to the hardware. I guess such a thing > doesn't exist for FreeBSD; I was just hoping there was some avenue > which I haven't discovered yet. > > --Alex > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 12:40:34 -0800, eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu wrote: > > The FreeBSD Nvidia project is effectively dead because NVidia won't help > > them > > > out with errors they are getting. However, we do have HW 3d > > acceleration > > for > > > 3dfx Voodoo3/4/5/Banshee, MGA Gx00, and ATI r128/radeon cards through > > the > > DRI. > > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ > > > > On Saturday 27 October 2001 18:04, you wrote: > > > Preface: this is not for games; it is for education and computational > > > geometry (just thought I'd mention my purposes are other than > > > recreational). > > > > > > Are there any OpenGL cards which FreeBSD fully supports? Any at all? > > > What I mean is full hardware acceleration plus an OpenGL > > > implementation for the card (not Mesa). I am willing to pay ANY price > > > for such a card. I am aware there is a FreeBSD/NVidia project started > > > on SourceForge, but it doesn't look like they will have something > > > working anytime soon (I signed the petition). > > > > > > Let's suppose my distaste for Linux is equal to my distaste for > > > non-hardware-accelerated graphics. Stated in the positive, I *really* > > > like FreeBSD but also *really* want to do some computational geometry > > > at home. Do I have any options? > > > > > > Please CC me if you respond. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > --Alex > > _______________________________________________________ > Send a cool gift with your E-Card > http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/ -- Eric Anholt eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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