From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 8 8:36:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5658C1532A for ; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from umji@fang.cs.sunyit.edu) Received: from localhost (umji@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA27377; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:37:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from umji@fang.cs.sunyit.edu) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:37:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Imor To: Chris Piazza Cc: Fred Jacobs , FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Potential port of XF86_SVGA + riva_glx In-Reply-To: <19990608065011.A848@norn.ca.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Anybody have the SVGA and libGL binaries located on a ftp somewhere? I think a package might be better since the HD requirements for building the X server are pretty high (I ran out of HD space just downloading the source tars :) Mike On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Chris Piazza wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 06:18:19AM -0500, Fred Jacobs wrote: > > I have successfully built the software required to utilize the nvidia > > riva TNT chipset of 3d graphics hardware for hardware-accelerated mesa3d/GLX, > > in X. (Whew, that's a mouth full) nVidia posted recently documentation on > > making this work, and after various hacking and slashing, I have it up and > > running. The build procedure, however, was rather unpleasant. Ideally this > > sort of thing would go into ports, but I haven't submitted a port myself > > asofyet. Therefore I'd like to ask what direction to go in now, and to share > > what information I have in case another individual might wish to work on such > > a port. > > > > > I'm not sure that this warrants a port; it will be included in XFree86 > 4.0, no? (FWIW, I didn't find the build procedure _that_ bad ;-) > > -- > Chris Piazza Abbotsford, BC, Canada > cpiazza@home.net > finger norn@norn.ca.eu.org for PGP key > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message