From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 24 21:18:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hurricane.columbus.rr.com (m4.columbus.rr.com [204.210.252.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA1814CA8 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 21:18:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from caa@columbus.rr.com) Received: from columbus.rr.com ([24.95.60.151]) by hurricane.columbus.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 00:18:05 -0500 Received: (from caa@localhost) by columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA97125; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 00:18:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from caa) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 00:18:14 -0500 From: "Charles Anderson" To: Theo van Klaveren Cc: patrick@whetstonelogic.com, joe@via.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the best accellerated graphics card for XF86? Message-ID: <19991225001814.A97034@midgard.dhs.org> References: <199912232353.SAA69429@p.wl.vg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl on Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 12:58:34AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 12:58:34AM +0100, Theo van Klaveren wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 patrick@whetstonelogic.com wrote: > > > On 23 Dec, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > > > > > Now tha GLIDE for FreeBSD is available, what's the best video card > > > for playing quake, etc? > > > > > Well, since GLIDE only support 3DFX cards, I'd say your choice is > pretty limited :) > > Besides that, the port I've done only supports the (now ancient) > Voodoo Graphics based cards. For Voodoo2/3, look at Doug Rabson's > patches to the original source code. > GLX works pretty good with my g400 max, It get 37.4 fps at 640x480 Normal settings with quake3. > > > > And, who is going to build us a FreeBSD Quake 1, now that the source is > > out! > > Sorry, I only got as far as the server so far :-) I've built glquake but I still has some bugs to work out. > > The X11 client built, but there is a bug in Quake's assembly code > (methinks) that produces a SIGBUS in memset() ... haven't investigated > thourougly(sp?) yet. > > I'll try and build the GL client, but I haven't got high hopes... > If anyone is intersted, I can give you my patches to the QuakeWorld > code (it fixes the Linux CDROM code and some other Linux specific > thingies). See above, the gl code was actually pretty easy on a first pass sort of thing. (Notice I'm not saying it's usable yet.) > > Theo van Klaveren > http://phoenix.student.utwente.nl / ICQ #1353681 > > - Why, oh why didn't I take the _blue_ pill? > -Charlie -- Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com No quote, no nothin' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message