Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:27:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting info about 3Dfx Message-ID: <199804280657.QAA29804@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:45:02 MST." <199804280645.XAA04568@hub.freebsd.org>
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> > > to cleanup /dev/3dfx, get 3Dfx to OK the source release of /dev/3dfx > > > since it doesn't really include any of their code that shouldn't be a > > > problem, and making an RPM. > > The last paragraph is quite interesting :) > > I think it means that he is trying to get 3dfx to release the kernel level > That would be THE reason to go out and buy a 3dfx card :) Yes it would, but alas no :( Daryll just emailed me and said that the device would just be there so userland stuff can map the card into memory and do a few simple queries (I suppose to remove the root-only problem with access). Which is nice, but not the whole enchilada :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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