From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Feb 20 17:56:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582A337B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:56:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B5143F3F for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:56:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003022101563605200jv26ve>; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:56:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA44596; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:56:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:56:34 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Andrew J Caines Cc: FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: Video card with 3D hardware acceleration - advice sought In-Reply-To: <20030220205220.GH61591@hal9000.halplant.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 On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Andrew J Caines wrote: > Short > ===== > [...] These are all good questions and if someone who knows the answers can respond, I too would be thrilled. I know the new OS-independent driver interface for XF86 makes it possible for "linux" drivers to be run on FreeBSD, but I really have no idea what all thise buzwords really mean. What does 3D acceleration really mean? What operations doe sit do? 4x4 matrix ops? distance/colour mapping? who knows.!? Julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message