Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:48:23 -0800 From: Super-User <root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Banshee X Server source released Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9903242043400.2621-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu> In-Reply-To: <36F94D27.5B2069E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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Quick, Quick! Reverse engineer the card! Now that we've got the source, we can discover all the 3dfx trade secrets about poking values into various registers which have revolutionized the way that VGA has been done for the past decade. We'll be rich! We can put them out of business! I'd write more, but I gotta rush off andfinish trying to unobfuscate that NVidia source. Ever since they obsfucated it, I had to stop reproducing their cards, and couldn't figure out their magical trade secrets of their VGA pipeline. Getting tired of video card vendors who are worried about releasing driver specs, Dan On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > This came today in the XFree86/OS2 list: > __________________________ > FYI: > Cards with the Banshee chipset (3DFX) were not available because of lack > of docs. Now the source for a (barely accelerated) server is available, > so it is likely that the next version of XFree86 will support these > cards. For downloads: > http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html > ... > __________________________ > > enjoy, > > Pedro. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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