From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 16 16:13:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13922 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:13:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13888; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 16:13:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27098; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:15:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199802162215.OAA27098@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: "Daniel J. O'Connor" cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GL Quake In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:58:08 +1030." <199802161328.XAA01397@holly.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:15:13 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think if others also post on news.3dfx.com , 3dfx.glide.linux requesting a port of glide for FreeBSD it may increase our chances of getting a native glide library for FreeBSD. If you are not actively contributing this sure is a nice and easy way to contribute. For those who don't know what Glide is , Glide is a low level library interface to the Voodoo chipset which is a very popular 3d engine. Thank you, Amancio > Hi Amancio, > Well, I put in a good work for you on the 3Dfx newsgroup.. But it probably > won't help since my word is worth squat to them =) > > I have just got my shiny new Monster 3D card, and it works(ish) under FreeBSD. > It worked, but I got a weird problem where by when the console dropped down, > it would be triangular, and it would map the texture into the triangle.. > It looked really cool, but its not very useful =) > > I also have problems when it fails, (ie I;m not root), it screws up the VT, > and I have to go to another machine, telnet in, and change over (I couldn't > reset the VT back into a useable state ): > > Although all this is moot, beacuse now it has stopped working - I may have > wedged the 3D card tho.. But still, it LOOKED nice :) (bloody excellent > infact) > > I think this will probably be easier when I put Win95 back on my machine tho :) > > Thanks for your help, and the effort to get Quake working under FreeBSD too! > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message