Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:24:41 -0500 (EST) From: <joeo@cracktown.com> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Subject: Re: DRI/Matrox: Best FreeBSD & XFree vers? (RESEND) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0102122106370.10747-100000@asmodean.nks.net> In-Reply-To: <20010213025748.A40635@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl>
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You may want to sync up with Stephen Hocking. I believe he and someone else were working on getting the tdfx stuff up to date for stable and current. They may have included some maintenance on the non-hardware specific bits... You're way better off looking more for stability than performance. On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:38:32PM -0800, Randall Hopper wrote: > > Hi. I'm contemplating a major system update, and wanted to find out > > what the latest FreeBSD and XFree86 versions are that anyone's gotten a > > Matrox G200/400/450 working with DRI. > > > > FreeBSD 4.2-R and XFree86 4.0.1? Or do I need later for some new kernel > > bits or best performance? > > > > I found Steve Reid's excellent write-up in the archives for 4.x & 4.0.1 > > (http://wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl/freebsd/hwaccel.html), but since it's three > > months old I thought I'd check first. > > > Good to check, since this works for XFree 4.0.1 only... you can compile it > with 4.0.2 (the current XF 4 version) but will find out that drm in the > bsd subtree and the rest is out of sync, at least for Matrox cards. I got > patches from someone on this list that worked for me (4.2-STABLE and XF 4.0.2) > with G400. > > Unfortunately I'm not sure about the origin of these patches, otherwise I > would have put them next to the 4.0.1 instructions, if that would be possible. > > Drop me a mail if you want to try it out. > > Karel. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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