From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sat Jan 3 22:06:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA03985 for multimedia-outgoing; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:06:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from rah.star-gate.com ([209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03978 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10387; Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:05:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199801040605.WAA10387@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Brian Tao cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gack, again! 3DFX cards. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 1998 00:59:01 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 22:05:38 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk You can try to run the Mesa demos which use the 3dfx . Just read the Mesa's README and README.3DFX Have fun, Amancio > On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > Well, do you have the Canopus working on FreeBSD or for that matter > > does any have a Canopus working on FreeBSD? > > I don't have a way of testing it yet, except with glquake. > > > From over here the added circuitry for NTSC or S-Video output > > perhaps makes a little difficult to support. > > I would assume that without explicit support for selecting the > output port, existing drivers will just default to the VGA output, > like other cards. I'm not too concerned about being able to use NTSC > output under FreeBSD (not having a TV at work). > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >