Beta testers?

[leech]

Tungsten Graphics is now the one in charge of doing the DRI stuff. They're working right now on the Radeon 8500. http://www.tungstengraphics.com/ http://dri.sourceforge.net/ So I wouldn't worry too much about how the linux 3D stuff is going. But I'm thinking that this time around that Matrox will do in-house 3D. I don't have any inside info. But, think about it. Even on their website it says "To be determined" for the win9x platform, and yet for Win NT4 and linux it says "Coming soon." To me that shows they're more concerned with getting Win NT4 and linux drivers out than they are Win9x. (and stop your complaining you old dinosaurs who refuse to upgrade your OS. Face it, your old games are just that, OLD. Use an emulator to run them if they won't run on newer operating systems.

Leech

[bsdgeek]

I hope that the P drivers are not binaries for XFree86. Binary drivers hurt we BSD users. No *BSD user has hardware GL for any nVidia card because the kernel module is incompatable with *BSD.

[rugger]

Sigh

Just to repeat

I need linux drivers before I can buy a Parhellia.

[Steve Snyder]

Re: Sigh

Originally posted by rugger
Just to repeat

I need linux drivers before I can buy a Parhellia.

"Me too". Ahem.

There's no point to owning hardware if it can't be driven. I'll replace my G400MAX with a Parhelia when the drivers are available for my Linux/Xfree86 machine and not before.

[leech]

BSDGeek: Question for you, I tried installing FreeBSD 4.5 on my computer, but everytime I'd load the module for my SBLive 5.1 Value card it'd hard crash. Any ideas? I use linux most of the time (well stuck in windows now 'til they release Parhelia drivers) but was trying out FreeBSD to learn the alternatives. It simply did not like my SBLive 5.1.

Leech

[bsdgeek]

Sorry I don't know what could be causing that, I never had trouble with my SBLive. I will look around online and see what I find.

EDIT:
Ok you are trying to use the kernel module. It appears that the kernel module will cause system hangs. Install the source and add a line with "device pcm" to the kernel config file then compile it.