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Ingolf Steinbach | 28 Sep 2006 14:03
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3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

Hi,

what is the status of NetBSD (3.x or 4.x) with respect to
support of 3D features of graphics cards? I am interested
in
- supported card models,
- which version of NetBSD (3.x vs 4.x),
- which version of X11 (XFree86 vs Xorg),
- how to enable, and maybe
- where to get more detailed NetBSD information on this
   topic.

I ask because OpenGL applications are painfully slow on
my machine, and I consider buying another graphics card
-- provided NetBSD supports its 3d hardware acceleration
features.

Cheers
     Ingolf
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Sergey Svishchev | 30 Sep 2006 20:56
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Re: 3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:03:08PM +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
>Hi,
>
>what is the status of NetBSD (3.x or 4.x) with respect to
>support of 3D features of graphics cards? I am interested
>in
>- supported card models,
>- which version of NetBSD (3.x vs 4.x),

If you happen to own a TNT2, try this --
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/1999/07/04/0003.html

:-)

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Ingolf Steinbach | 29 Sep 2006 09:16
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Re: 3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

Hi.

Matthias Scheler wrote:
> I'm afraid there's no support 3D acceleration in NetBSD-amd64 and
> i386 independent of the used X11 server because the kernel bits are
> still missing.

Sorry for not having been more specific. Yes, I indeed meant
i386.

What kernel bits are missing in particular? Is there a web page
describing what would have to be implemented?

Cheers
     Ingolf
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Karsten Kruse | 29 Sep 2006 14:28
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Re: 3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

Ingolf Steinbach schrieb:

> What kernel bits are missing in particular? Is there a web page
> describing what would have to be implemented?

There was a page, but it's gone. Maybe you can ask where the patches are now?

http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=11321

Karsten Kruse

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Brano Zilka | 29 Sep 2006 14:38
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Re: 3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

I found this patch somewhere, I don`t remember where
it was. You can download it from here if you want:

http://www.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~zilka/netbsd-dri.diff.gz

2006/9/29, Karsten Kruse <tecneeq <at> gmx.net>:
> Ingolf Steinbach schrieb:
>
> > What kernel bits are missing in particular? Is there a web page
> > describing what would have to be implemented?
>
> There was a page, but it's gone. Maybe you can ask where the patches are now?
>
> http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=11321
>
> Karsten Kruse
>
> --
>         www.tecneeq.de    www.newbie-net.de    blog.onetbsd.de
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>  _/\_           BSD-guy: "Cool, they used my code! :-)"
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Karsten Kruse | 28 Sep 2006 17:04
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Re: 3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

Ingolf Steinbach schrieb:

> what is the status of NetBSD (3.x or 4.x) with respect to
> support of 3D features of graphics cards?

As far as i know there is no such support in NetBSD 3, 4 or current.

There where some patches but they never made it into the tree, probably
because they didn't work that good.

Karsten Kruse

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Matthias Scheler | 28 Sep 2006 17:05
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Re: 3D support on NetBSD w/ XFree86 or Xorg

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:03:08PM +0200, Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
> what is the status of NetBSD (3.x or 4.x) with respect to
> support of 3D features of graphics cards?

I'm afraid there's no support 3D acceleration in NetBSD-amd64 and
i386 independent of the used X11 server because the kernel bits are
still missing.

Michael Lorenz *might* have added some kind of 3D support to
NetBSD-macppc or NetBSD-sparc64 but that's probably not what
you are after.

	Kind regards

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