From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 18 18:50:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEF7E15780 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA65792; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:49:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199910190149.SAA65792@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Randall Hopper Cc: Roger Hardiman , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 and fxtv In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:15:39 EDT." <19991018181539.A2995@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:49:09 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Glide is a propieratory 3d interface however as you well know there is very strong movement in XFree86 to deploy 3d assist opengl. Best Regards > Roger Hardiman: > |Randall Hopper: > |> I should rag you for not buying an OpenSource 3D card, but I won't ;-) > | > |The full specs for the card are on the 3d fx developers web site, > |and are freely available. > ... > |Let me reword that. > |The 2D specs are available. > |I was under the impression the Voodoo 3 2d core was the same > |as the Banshee 2D core. And the banshee specs are available. > > Right. 2D available. 3D still requires a binary-only piece like libglide. > Last I hear, the latter still isn't available native for FreeBSD. > > So (barring hacks), support only for those OSs 3dfx supports, and for those > OSs which can emulate one of those platforms (assuming its users don't mind > the headache and overhead associated with cross-compiling and emulating > 3D). Not me. More power to nVidia and Matrox. I'm glad to see John > Carmack and friends chose OpenSource 3D cards to start with. > > Randall > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message