Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:29:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Christopher Masta <chris@netmonger.net>, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo3? [was Re: GLX Xserver for FreeBSD?] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003070827340.8714-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000306073848.B33006@evil.2y.net>
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Coleman Kane wrote: > It would be nice to stop implementing glide for use with mesa and all the other > libs, simply because that is their old previously closed API and it basically > conflicts with other cards. For some reason people still like to write for it > over OpenGL. The Mesa driver for voodoo3 is based on Glide for a good reason - its a reasonably useful hardware abstraction layer. Performance doesn't seem to suffer. > > Changing the subject, with the new XFree86 imminent, is there any linux > emulation port of the DRI libs yet? Can I just compile XF86 4.0 with the > linux_devtools package? Emulating Linux DRI clients will require a FreeBSD DRI server and FreeBSD DRI kernel module. I have these for voodoo3 only -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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