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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: OpenGL capable X server for FBSD
Date: 4 Mar 1997 16:55:08 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Roland Jesse
wrote on 23 Feb (in article <0vzpww723n.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>):
=I am going to change my graphic card in my FreeBSD box. The new one
=will probably be a Millenium. I will do some OpenGL work so it would
=be nice to have an OpenGL capable X server. Is Xinside the only source
=to get one or does somebody know of another?
The only commercial source that I know of. However, their OpenGL
capable X-server ($200) will NOT use your hardware OpenGL acceleration.
Cards like 3DLabs' Glint, ELSA's monsters will not be fully
utilized... Will, probably, still be very fast.
BTW, Matrox was well known in a very recent past to not to cooperate
with X developers. (Windoze only). As a result, it's support in
XFree86 X-server is very limited right now. Yu may wantto consider
somthing else.
There is currently a project in Linux world, which is going to enable
full use of Glint-cards. See the link to them from Mesa's web-page.
-mi
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