From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 3 13:24:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from asmodean.nks.net (asmodean.nks.net [216.139.201.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D8C637B41C for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:24:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joeo@localhost) by asmodean.nks.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA02977; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:24:44 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:24:44 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: To: Randall Hopper Cc: Subject: Re: OpenGL In-Reply-To: <20020103152917.A1658@nc.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For a patch for the AMD 7xx northbridge chipset for 4.4-RELEASE check pr32301 in the open bug reports. 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message