Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:40:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Dave Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> Cc: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVIDIA Geforce 2mx Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104182338340.26636-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <000d01c0c879$af4979c0$e66b1e3f@home.net>
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> There are also accelerated replacements for glx and the nv driver that > comes with XF864.0.2 that Nvidia distributes for linux. There is no > BSD port of this yet. There is a petition to sign that someone set up > for this but I forget the link. In linux I can get 90fps in Quake3 > with these drivers. They are pretty fast but require a kernel module > to be loaded for the XF86 nvidia module <not the nv module that comes > with XF86 4.0.2> These would obviously be nice to have for FreeBSD and > others but they may not be willing to port it. > > > > There IS 3d support for the Geforce cards built into the X server, > > though. OpenGL is accelerated to some > > degree at least when Module glx is loaded in X. > > As I said before, this 3d support is on EVERY card... it's called Software OpenGL, and it's dog slow. OpenGL is not accelerated at all in this mode. I was talking about getting HARDWARE 3d support for FreeBSD on the Geforce2 MX... this is NOT supported, although I heard a few places that support is in the works. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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