From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Jan 19 02:42:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18324 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:42:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18308 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA46076; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:49:01 GMT Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:49:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Martin Cracauer cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hand up on Voodoo1 vs. Voodoo2 In-Reply-To: <19990118154054.A3946@cons.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Martin Cracauer wrote: > If you have a Voodoo Card, please let me know whether it is Voodoo1, > 2, Rush or whatever. I assume there are many more V1 folks around, but > need proof. Also, nowaday's Xi has OpenGL drivers for other cards, so > Voodoo isn't the only option now. Anyone did try this with Quake? > > I have some time to work on the 3d-related ports, amoung them > emulators/linux_glide. This currently installs a Voodoo1-only shared > library. It doesn't run on a V2 and a V2 lib doesn't run on a > V1. Nice. > > The Voodoo 1 Linux stuff is much nicer anyway, it has everything you > need including header files and some test programs in one nice > .tar.gz, while the newer stuff is rpm and to get the header files you > have to download a 3MB SDK with lots of useless stuff. > > Opinions? I have a Voodoo 2 card sitting idle in my work machine waiting for a FreeBSD port of Glide... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message