From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 6:47:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306983E93 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 06:47:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id OAA22426; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:56:41 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id OAA05614; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:58:41 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C1256880.004D46C5 ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:04:03 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: David Wiard Cc: Mike Morgan , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Message-ID: Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 15:03:56 +0100 Subject: Re: opengl for freebsd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: Mike Morgan , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" cc: (bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Re: opengl for freebsd At 01:12 PM 2/8/00 -0700, Mike Morgan wrote: >>>> Is there a OpenGl plugin that i can use with FBSD? I have a Viper 770 ultra (32 MB ram) card that supports opengl in my windows box and i have the same card in my fbsd box too. <<<< The only way to take advantage of the OpenGL support is to get XFree86 version 3.3.5 or higher and use the TNT Xserver. I'm pretty sure your Viper 770 Ultra is using the TNT2 chipset, so the TNT Xserver is supposed to support that. ************************************ Bzzt : you have to pach Mesa with the glx port to get accelerated OpenGL (XFree4.0 should integrate OpenGL but it is not yet available) ************************************ >>>> Also, what type of mpeg, quicktime, or Flash support does Freebsd have? <<<< Quicktime is unsupported entirely. Nobody's releasing the Sorrenson codecs to anybody, without licensing fees, so there's no Quicktime players. MPEG can be played on a few different players, most notably MTV (not free) and xanim. I can't help with Flash, though I'd assume it's available with the ************************************ Flash works fine as a plug-in with the linux version of Communicator 4.7 (under both 3.4 and a recent 4.0) There is also an alpha version of the G2 realplayer available (from a www.downlaod.com ? - I don't remember), which works, but not as a plug-in to the same netscape. TfH ************************************ latest release of Netscape (4.7). You might check out www.macromedia.com and find out if Flash is available for FreeBSD. -- dave wiard (dave@srn.com) The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message