Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Thomas Rösner" <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:02:07
Message-Id: 457373D0.3070109@digital-trauma.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: URGENT: No more fonts after xorg changes by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Hi,
2
3 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
4 > To write a 3D accelerated driver, we need to know what primitive operations
5 > the cards support and how to invoke those primitive operations.
6
7 The nouveau project uses the blob driver to get this information by
8 sending primitive commands to it and then watching the hw registers for
9 changes, so in a way Nvidia provided us with the spec... ;-).
10
11 http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
12
13 If you want to work for a free/libre hw 3D solution, this is the place
14 to go, it seems.
15
16 Regards,
17 Thomas
18
19
20 --
21 "If you can't find a fitting quote, just make one up like everybody else."
22 -- "Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948)
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