From: Nawfal b. M. R. <op...@ma...> - 2001-02-22 17:46:51
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On Thursday 22 February 2001 23:56, you wrote: : Hi Heiko, Hi Nawfal, : : > Hi Nawfal, : : --snip : : > the only cards i know for sure that can do xvideo on freebsd are : > matrox's g200/400 cards - if anyone has more info on xv with : > freebsd, i would be interested to hear about that on this list :) : : ATI r128 based (theater and probably radeon) should work : too, with gatos drivers (but you need to compile by yourself. You : should have a fresh XFree source tree from DRI projects to : compile these drivers now, not the official XFree 4.0.2. : Hmm... I have XFree source tree in my comp. Unfortunately, I'm using Nvidia. I know that there is a petition going on asking Nvidia to write drivers for FreeBSD but I don't think that it will be in the near future... Well, I'll have to consider buying either Matrox/ATI. But I do know that there is a 3dfx driver for voodoo cards being worked on and it currently resides in the FreeBSD-5.0 CURRENT tree... Thanks a lot for responding :)) |