Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 17:23:36 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting info about 3Dfx Message-ID: <199804280923.RAA24185@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 16:27:24 %2B0930." <199804280657.QAA29804@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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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 :) > Hopefully quake2-3.15 would support all this. We can but dream of having FreeBSD native apps beating on that card. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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