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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:02:22 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, thierry@herbelot.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010312150222.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103120946590.24090-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>

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On 12-Mar-01 Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>  That's what I thought, but Jordan's email really made me doubt that my
>  vision of things is correct.  Particulary, I don't quite understand this
>  one:
>  
>       Statement #1: Utah-GLX doesn't direct render
>  
>       Statement #2: From man nv(4) of XFree-4.0.2- "The driver is fully
>                       accelerated, and provides support..."

This means 'in 2D'.

>  So, considering all the above, I don't quite understand "at least 2X the
>  frame rate using the same OpenGL app", speaking Jordan's words.
>  
>  I'm probably missing something here, and I'm very eager to find my way
>  out :-)

Yes, see above :)

>  Actually, there's one more question I have about XFree-4.  IIUC, core GL
>  libs, such as libGL.so, libOSMesa.so, etc are included in XFree 4.0.2 core
>  distribution.  So how come that lots of applications still have Mesa-3.2
>  in their dependencies?

No idea :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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