Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:19:37 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: joeo@cracktown.com Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenGL Message-ID: <20020103191937.A705@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201031619460.859-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net>; from joeo@cracktown.com on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:24:44PM -0500 References: <20020103152917.A1658@nc.rr.com> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0201031619460.859-100000@asmodean-ssn.nks.net>
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Thanks! Just patched it into my 4.3-stable kernel, and I'll checkout
the XFree86 CVS bsd-2-0-0-branch straightaway (I gather from Eric's DRI
page that that's the safest route to go these days for Matrox folks).
Hope to see the AMD 761 patches in 4.5-R.
Randall
joeo@cracktown.com:
|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.
--
Randall Hopper
aa8vb@nc.rr.com
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