Re: Question about 3dfx (V2) and X 4.0.1

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg <madsdyd@challenge.dk>]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Steve Baker wrote:

> Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
> 
> > Slightly off topic, I am afraid, but I didn't know where else to ask.
> 
> Go to www.mesa3d.org and sign up to the Mesa mailing list - you'll get
> a *really* authoritative answer there.

Thanks, I will.

> 
> > Could anyone point me to information about making my Voodoo 2 cards (SLI
> > 3dfx) work with X 4.0.1 and Mesa 3.x?
> 
> The problem is that the DRI stuff is really geared towards driving
> 3D in-a-window which is something that the Voodoo-2 cards *can't* do
> (it's a hardware restriction).

Well, I don't mind _not_ using DRI. I would like to use X4 for things like
the new render stuff, antialised fonts, and so on, but I do not mind it
using fullscreen only for 3D rendering.

Oh well. 

Mads

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