From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Mar 7 0:27:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B8F37BD97 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 00:27:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12SFKc-000PuW-0K; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:27:06 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA94144; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:32:46 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:29:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Coleman Kane Cc: Martin Cracauer , Christopher Masta , multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo3? [was Re: GLX Xserver for FreeBSD?] In-Reply-To: <20000306073848.B33006@evil.2y.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Coleman Kane wrote: > It would be nice to stop implementing glide for use with mesa and all the other > libs, simply because that is their old previously closed API and it basically > conflicts with other cards. For some reason people still like to write for it > over OpenGL. The Mesa driver for voodoo3 is based on Glide for a good reason - its a reasonably useful hardware abstraction layer. Performance doesn't seem to suffer. > > Changing the subject, with the new XFree86 imminent, is there any linux > emulation port of the DRI libs yet? Can I just compile XF86 4.0 with the > linux_devtools package? Emulating Linux DRI clients will require a FreeBSD DRI server and FreeBSD DRI kernel module. I have these for voodoo3 only -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message