From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 1 5:28: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com (raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA3C37B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 05:28:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com (nb@raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by raven.ravenbrook.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06258 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:28:17 GMT From: Nick Barnes To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: OpenGL with hardware acceleration Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:28:14 +0000 Message-ID: <6250.973085294@raven.ravenbrook.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am buying a new desktop machine to run FreeBSD. I want to do some OpenGL development in my spare time. I'd like hardware acceleration, but I don't need the latest greatest graphics card. What card should I buy and what hoops do I need to jump through to use it? Here are my musings; please feel free to correct me. It seems that Xi Graphics don't have a 3D X server for FreeBSD yet, so I don't have a commercially supported option. I should obviously use Mesa for OpenGL compatibility. Looking on the ports collection, there doesn't seem to be Glide for FreeBSD yet. I don't really want to develop in Linux compatibility mode, so I can't use linux-glide. For hardware acceleration, I will need to use XFree86 4.0.1, with the DRI. Does FreeBSD 4.x ship with XFree86 4.0.1, or do I have to replace 3.3.x myself? Is the DRI working on FreeBSD yet? As for cards, I guess I can budget $150 for a card. I get the impression that nVidia drivers are non-existent, whereas 3dfx, Matrox, and ATI drivers are rather better (in that order?) So maybe a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB? Or a Matrox Millenium G400 32MB? I don't want to be at the bleeding edge; I don't want to have to download a new driver once a week; I don't want to run Quake; I just want reasonably fast OpenGL on FreeBSD. Nick Barnes -- FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE: up 66 days, 18:03 last reboot Sat Aug 26 21:11 (lightning strike) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message