From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailoff.mtu.edu ([141.219.70.111]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15mlfu-00068u-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:38:43 -0600 Received: from mail.mtu.edu (campus4.mtu.edu [141.219.70.7]) by mailoff.mtu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8S0biM11936 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:37:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cslserver.csl.mtu.edu (cslserver.csl.mtu.edu [141.219.153.30]) by mail.mtu.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8S0bQ619288 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:37:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtu.edu (picho.resnet.mtu.edu [141.219.77.95]) by cslserver.csl.mtu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/mtumailer-2.0b) with ESMTP id UAA23368 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:37:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3BB3C5C0.4020802@mtu.edu> From: Joe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010922 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] xfree86, dri, voodoo, glide, etc. Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Sep 27 18:39:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:35:12 -0400 X-Archives-Salt: aaa20032-5c10-47f1-b83a-cc00f1a024a1 X-Archives-Hash: ff321c099de94ace3f3af4fb84f932c7 hey i just was to say first of all that gentoo linux is pretty sweet. it's a nice middle ground for people who've only used redhat and the like but want to know more about linux. anyway the reason i'm writing is that i think there should be a guide up about how to manually compile XFree86 to use tdfx direct rendering infrastructure. as you might expect, i had to install glide, install glide-v5, decompile xfree86, edit the host.def, and compile xfree86. since i already had the xf86 source from when i emerged it, it wasn't such a bad deal. but i still had to check newsgroups and look around for a couple of days before i figured out how exactly to do it. so if you could throw something up (i'll write if up if you like :p) on the webpage, i'd feel much better about it. thanks --joe