On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 02:00:12 +0100 Werner Lehmann wrote: > as a casual FreeBSD-User und an enthusiastic Gamer I am especially > concerned about how 3d-games run on FreeBSD. If I understand things > right, most of the games are linux-ports, and rely on the opengl > subsystem provided by the port graphics/linux-f10-dri when using > linux-base-f10, which is MESA-Version 7.2. > But for a while now the FreeBSD OpenGL subsystem has been Mesa 7.4.4, > an recently can even be compiled to 7.6 using the flag > "WITHOUT_NOUVEAU="yes". > So if the port linux-f10-dri still is Mesa-Version 7.2, all > linux-games will still be limited to that really old Mesa-version and > not benefit from the newer Mesa-version in FreeBSD. Is that true?
> And if so, what work is being done to get graphics/linux-f10-dri on > pair with the FreeBSD-OpenGL-Subsystem being 7.4 or 7.6? And sure 7.8 > will come to FreeBSD soon, too. > Would you please give me a short reply and tell if you are looking > into that matter? If packages for Fedora 10 with Mesa 7.4/7.6 exist then please give us a link and we'll see what can be done. If there are no such packages then a big work to support, say, Fedora 12 ports should be done (it's about 50 linux infrastructure ports). -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
