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Date:      Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:44:51 -0700
From:      Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz>
To:        Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: agp and 3dfx
Message-ID:  <397DD213.D83F9156@es.co.nz>
References:  <20000725043919.26222.qmail@web1609.mail.yahoo.com> <20000725133538.A6627@cokane.yi.org>

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Coleman Kane wrote:
> 
> XFree86-4 has been updated to the newest version. It has a kld named
> tdfx.ko that must be installed into /modules/. When you load X, it will
> load dri, agp, and tdfx all for you. There is also a 3dfx.ko to work
> with /dev/3dfx. This is provided to support device accesses for glide
> programs, like quake3 and all. It currently has some issues with the
> Voodoo3 and Banshee hardware, but I could use another tester. It is part
> of -CURRENT, and will most likely panic your box, but some output sent
> to me about the crash would be helpful. Actually, if anyone has an old
> agp 3dfx card they'dl ike to donate for this development, it would be
> helpful. I have been testing it with my voodoo2 board with much success,
> but I have had some responses from users with Voodoo3's that say that
> they haven't gotten it to work.

What about Nvidia's 5.xx linux driver effort... what kind of effort
would be required to get that running on FreeBSD?

	-mike


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