From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jan 3 17:36:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005B637B405 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 17:36:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from stealth.cary.dummynet ([66.26.231.240]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:19:21 -0500 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.cary.dummynet (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g040Jbr00756; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:19:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.cary.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 19:19:37 -0500 From: Randall Hopper To: joeo@cracktown.com Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenGL Message-ID: <20020103191937.A705@nc.rr.com> References: <20020103152917.A1658@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from joeo@cracktown.com on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:24:44PM -0500 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message