Re: OpenGL support?

[Matthew Yee-King <yeeking@no-future.com>]

I can probably help you here since i spent last night reading about and fiddling with xfree/ driver acceleration!

There are accelerated drivers available for XFree. Have a look around this page:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/

This glossary helped too:

http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/glossary.html

I ended up compiling a DRM kernel module for my ati rage 128 card and with a bit of XFree config file hacking got it working nicely in combination with the framebuffer device. 

The XF86Config-4 hacks you need are dependent on the card, so i spose you should repost when you know which card you're gonna get.

Also i think debian 3.0 stable comes with xfree 4.1 so maybe its worth upgrading it to testing which comes with 4.2. 

cheers

matthew



On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:16:19 +0100
Michael Ladwein <linux@ladweins.de> wrote:

> I am using a PowerMac 9500 with 2MB ATI Mach 64 graphics card.
> 
> I am planning to install Debian 3.0 but before doing so I would like to
> replace my video card by a better one (ATI Rage, Voodoo, ...)
> 
> What I couldn't figure out is: Do the Xfree86 drivers have OpenGL support?
> If not: Where can I get appropriate drivers?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
>             Michael 
> 
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