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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:14:32 -0500
From:      Coleman Kane <cokane@micro.ti.com>
To:        Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, devel@xfree86.org
Subject:   Re: Glide3 CVS now working on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010122011432.B2151@cokane.yi.org>
In-Reply-To: <200101210547.f0L5lBe00426@bloop.craftncomp.com>; from shocking@houston.rr.com on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:47:44AM -0500
References:  <200101210547.f0L5lBe00426@bloop.craftncomp.com>

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Hello, Steve. I'm the person who had been working on the /dev/3dfx device
support for FreeBSD. I had planned on working on glide myself, but became r=
ather
busy on an internship at Texas Instruments. If you want an extra set of han=
ds to
help get this going, I'd be glad to work with you.

Stephen Hocking had the audacity to say:
>=20
> I've managed to compile up a version of the latest glide3 that gives me O=
penGL=20
> acceleration on FreeBSD with a Voodoo3 under Xfree86-4.0.2 (although only=
 as a=20
> user - root fails to authenticate for some reason). I'll test it on a Voo=
doo5=20
> once I get one. It was rather tedious work, (basically looking for every =
ifdef=20
> involving linux and making the appropriate additions) and once I figure o=
ut=20
> how to tweak autoconf/automake to use the appropriate files I'll post a b=
unch=20
> of patches.
>=20
> My next step is to start working on getting the latest DRI code to work u=
nder=20
> FreeBSD. I've chosen the Voodoo stuff to do this because it has the simpl=
est=20
> kernel drivers (unlike my old G400). I guess the DRI people can poke me a=
s=20
> needed - I see a lot of work has gone on with the new Voodoo drivers plus=
 the=20
> Radeon.
>=20
>=20
> 	Stephen
> --=20
>   The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor.
>=20
>     "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could prod=
uce
>      the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we k=
now
>      this is not true."            Robert Wilensky, University of Califor=
nia
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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>=20

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