From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 8 7: 7:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat196.27.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10ECE14E19 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 07:07:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA77070; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:06:56 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:06:56 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Duane Currie Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GGI In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Again, questions I can't answer... One thing that I'm curious about...somewhere along the way, I read that the 3D stuff was 'kernel based'...basically, you needed kernel drivers to make use o fthe 3D acceleration features of the various cards ... is this not accurate? On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Duane Currie wrote: > > FreeBSD supports it? kewl. > Is that through emulation or a port? > > Oh, actually another question: Do you support the card as a device so > non-root users can use it without making programs setuid? > > Duane > > > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > A friend just picked himself up a Voodoo2 card that Linux now supports and > > > > keeps cramming down the "FreeBSD doesn't support 3D accelleration" line > > > > down my throat :( My card is *supposedly* faster then what he has, from > > > > comparing specs...be great if I can slam it back down his throat :) > > > > > > Since the voodoo2 is a 3d card, and X is exclusively 2d, I can't quite > > > see how "supporting" this card actually achieves anything. > > > > > > If he's talking about GLIDE, you might mention that we support the > > > Linux GLIDE library... > > > > Well, let me CC him in...I don't follow Linux too closely, so don't feel > > that I can adequately comment on this... > > > > Marc G. Fournier > > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > > > Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message