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Can anyone point out a decent web page that explains how the 3 subjects
above work and how to install them, and if any of them are included as
default in XFree86 4.0.1.

Cheerz

Simon

P.S. I am running Mandrake with a G400MAX

look through the documentation on http://www.xfree86.org.

this is from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.DRI on my system:

3.  Supported Hardware
        3D acceleration is currently only available for systems with
Intel-compatible CPUs.  Support for Alpha, and perhaps other CPUs, should
be available in the future.
        XFree86 4.0 (or later versions) includes 3D acceleration for the
following graphics hardware:
   o 3dfx:
        o Voodoo3 3500 TV
        o Voodoo3 3000 AGP
        o Voodoo3 3000 PCI
        o Voodoo3 2000 AGP
        o Voodoo3 2000 PCI
        o Voodoo Banshee
        o Velocity 100/200
     There are many configurations of 3dfx cards on the market.  Not all have
     been tested.
   o Matrox:
        o Matrox G200
        o Matrox G400
   o Intel i810
        o i810
        o i810-dc100
        o i810e
   o ATI Rage 128
        o Rage Fury AGP
        o Rage Magnum AGP
        o XPERT 2000 AGP
        o XPERT 128 AGP
        o XPERT 99 AGP
        o All-in-Wonder 128 AGP
     The PCI versions of these cards also have minimal support.  Note that
     there are also Rage 128 Pro based boards on the market, and these are
     not yet supported.
   o 3Dlabs Oxygen GMX 2000 (MX/Gamma based)
Support for the following hardware is underway:
   o 3dfx Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 series
4.  Prerequisite Software
   o XFree86 4.0
   o For the 3dfx Voodoo3 driver, Linux kernel 2.2.x (later kernels will be
     supported in the near future, and may be required for some chipsets)
   o For the Matrox G200/G400, Linux kernel 2.3.51, with AGP support
   o For the Intel i810, Linux kernel 2.3.99-pre6, with AGP support
        Mesa 3.3 (beta) is included with XFree86 4.0; there is no need to
download the stand-alone Mesa distribution.

NVIDIA-cards are supported, but you need some binary modules from
http://www.nvidia.com (afaik only TNT and up have hardware-accelerated opengl).

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Felix Natter

With the 2.4.0-test series of kernels, is it best to have the drivers built
as modules or linked statically into the kernel?

Quote:

> NVIDIA-cards are supported, but you need some binary modules from
> http://www.nvidia.com (afaik only TNT and up have hardware-accelerated opengl).

> --
> Felix Natter

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