From: "Thomas Rösner" <Thomas.Roesner@digital-trauma.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:03:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457373D0.3070109@digital-trauma.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612031504.52901.bss03@volumehost.net>
Hi,
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> To write a 3D accelerated driver, we need to know what primitive operations
> the cards support and how to invoke those primitive operations.
The nouveau project uses the blob driver to get this information by
sending primitive commands to it and then watching the hw registers for
changes, so in a way Nvidia provided us with the spec... ;-).
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
If you want to work for a free/libre hw 3D solution, this is the place
to go, it seems.
Regards,
Thomas
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-02 16:10 [gentoo-amd64] URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes Clip2
2006-12-02 16:26 ` Dieter Ries
2006-12-02 19:10 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2006-12-02 19:22 ` Dieter Ries
2006-12-02 22:26 ` Nuitari
2006-12-03 10:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-12-03 13:32 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-12-03 15:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-12-03 21:04 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-12-04 1:03 ` Thomas Rösner [this message]
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2006-12-02 23:23 Dmitri Pogosyan
2006-12-03 21:18 Dmitri Pogosyan
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