Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 13:16:12 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 and fxtv Message-ID: <19991017131612.A6303@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <19991018025220.A25117@caamora.com.au> References: <199910140206.TAA07956@rah.star-gate.com> <19991017114658.A694@ipass.net> <19991018025220.A25117@caamora.com.au>
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jonathan michaels:
|On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 11:46:58AM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
|> Amancio Hasty:
|> |Say is anyone having problems with fxtv and the Voodoo 3 ?
|>
|> I should rag you for not buying an OpenSource 3D card, but I won't ;-)
|
|care to recommend one, please. i'm about to get into tv on my
|computer and really havent a clue where to start. i've heard bt
|848 (brooktree) cards are good place to start. i'm hoping to
|get a frame grabber as well.
|
|i've looked at the matrox g400, but don't know if it is open
|source enough or if our version of xfree86 will support it.
For the TV card, I think you've got the right idea. Hauppauge makes good
bt848 cards.
As for a 3D card with open source specs, I've attached a netnews post I
made a while back that might be of some help. It has some links to get you
going.
In the 3D-for-the-masses 3D cards category, G400-, TNT2-, and Voodoo3-based
AGP cards are currently the top-of-the-line. Of the three, only Voodoo3
doesn't have open source specs. If you want to stick with PCI for now (as
I did), look for a G200- or TNT-based card (G400 and TNT2 don't come in
PCI).
I chose a G200. More details can be found here:
http://www.ipass.net/~dbhopper/aa8vb/Matrox-G200/
Hope this helps,
Randall
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I'm not up on the HW-accel OpenGL support for commercial X servers (Xi,
Metro Link, etc.), so I'll discuss XFree86 support.
AFAIK, there currently exists full open source HW-accel OpenGL using
XFree86 for Matrox G200/G400 cards and RIVA 128/ZX/TNT/TNT2 cards for both
FreeBSD and Linux. If you're willing to accept a non-open source,
IA32-specific, Linux-specific solution add 3dfx cards to the list. Also,
there's reportedly GMX2000 support in the latest XFree86 4.0 prerelease,
but I don't know the details (see the snapshots page on www.xfree86.org).
The GLX development efforts are still work-in-progress so there are bugs
and unimplemented features here-and-there, but it generally works pretty
well with most apps (on my card at least). I have a G200 running on
FreeBSD with HW-accel OpenGL and am pleased with the performance. I've run
a variety of apps from simple demos to OpenDX (IBM Data Explorer).
Performance will only get better when DRI support is added.
Here are some links to surf on XFree86/GLX HW accel which should be helpful:
GLX
http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
GLX for XFree86
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna/XFree86-3D-status.html
XFree86 3D Status Report
http://reality.sgi.com/ripperda_engr/glx/matrox_news.html
SGI: GLX Acceleration for XFree86 and Linux
http://www.mesa3d.org/misc/SIGGRAPH99BOF.html
SIGGRAPH 1999 OpenGL/Linux BOF Minutes
XFree86/DRI
http://www.precisioninsight.com/demo.html
Precision Insight "Direct Rendering Demo"
3D Software
http://www.mesa3d.org/
The Mesa 3D Graphics Library
3D FreeBSD/Linux
http://www.freebsd.org/~3d/
FreeBSD 3D Home Page
http://www.freebsdzine.org/199907/features/tnt.html
FreeBSD: Hardware OpenGL on a TNT card
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/
Linux 3D
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/LinuxWorld99/LinuxWorldSGML.html
OpenGL/Mesa 3-D Support For Linux
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/software.html
3D Software for Linux
3DFX
http://www.voodooextreme.com/
Voodoo Extreme - Honey-roasted 3D gaming news...
http://www-hmw.caribel.pisa.it/fxmesa/index.shtml
The Mesa Voodoo driver home page
http://www.netroedge.com/~phil/3dfx-howto.html
3Dfx and Mesa Howto
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc
http://www.cpx-ssc.de/~y0d0004/docs/vbv3-suse-mini-howto/
VB/V3 SuSE Mini Howto
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/x-windows/voodoo3.html
Linuxnewbie: Voodoo3
http://web.missouri.edu/~ccblake/
Quake2 & Q3Test with 3Dfx and LINUX
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/home/3dfx/debianv3.html
debian voodoo3 guide
http://www.cpx-ssc.de/~y0d0004/docs/vbv3-suse-mini-howto/html/
How to setup a Banshee/Voodoo3 under SuSE Linux
TNT
http://www.nvidia.com/Marketing/Products/Pages.nsf/pages/linuxdownload
NVidia TNT Server & Linux FAQ
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