From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 11 20:32:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D58D37B71A for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 20:32:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03126; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:02:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:02:22 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Alexey Dokuchaev Subject: Re: Porting NVidia linux kernel modules to FreeBSD Cc: Jordan Hubbard , thierry@herbelot.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message