From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 2 8:27:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from aromo.spock.cl (aromo.spock.cl [200.27.125.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AAC37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:27:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from aromo.spock.cl (aromo.spock.cl [200.27.125.98]) by aromo.spock.cl (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g32GRIa86474 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:27:18 -0400 (CLT) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:27:18 -0400 (CLT) From: Roberto de Iriarte To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: About DRI Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From the project website at http://dri.sourceforge.net/ The Direct Rendering Infrastructure, also known as the DRI, is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware in a safe and efficient manner. It includes changes to the X server, to several client libraries, and to the kernel. The first major use for the DRI is to create fast OpenGL implementations. It was developed originally for Linux, but there is a FreeBSD effort located at http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ The project seems to be targeted for X86 only My goal is to get it running on the Alpha platform, but first, i needed to verify that i have a workable hardware config, therefore the Linux install. On linux, even on my low-end Ati Rage 128 Pro card (16MB) the improvement versus software 3d (Mesa) is tremendous, i.e bzflag is very playable at 1024x768x16bpp Regards Roberto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message