From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Apr 27 23:57:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06908 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06900; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA29804; Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:27:24 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199804280657.QAA29804@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting info about 3Dfx In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:45:02 MST." <199804280645.XAA04568@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:27:24 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA06903 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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