Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:00:53 -0600 (CST) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, shanon loveridge <shanon_loveridge@yahoo.co.uk>, <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OpenGL Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201031458000.3992-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <20020103152917.A1658@nc.rr.com>
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adding support to apgart for your chipset's registers is the secret trick to making dri work? whoa! awesome! where did you just do your research? i'll have to look at that and figure out how to get my cheesy SiS630 supported... On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Randall Hopper wrote: > Doug White: > |> I was wondering what the support for OpenGL was like > |> for FreeBSD and whether it is hard ware accelerated > |> under X. > | > |With some hackery, it is supported. > | > |Check out: > | > |http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/index.html > | > |> Xfree 4.0X > | > |You'll have to base from 4.1, hope that's okay. I'm using DRI fine on > |4.2-R with a Matrox G200. > > It's also important to verify that agpgart supports your motherboard's > northbridge chipset. > > Case in point: I upgraded my system last summer and have a Matrox G450 AGP > but have never gotten H/W acceleration going here because no one had added > support for my AMD761 northbridge to the agpgart drivers. > ...Re-researching just now, I see somebody added it to -current a few weeks > ago (hurray!), but I run -stable and I don't know if this has been MFCed > yet. Maybe my wait is over!? At any rate, I recommend you check first. > > Good luck! > > Randall > > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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