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   9 <H1>Supported Systems and Drivers</H1>
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  11 <p>
  12 Mesa was originally designed for Unix/X11 systems and is still best
  13 supported on those systems. All you need is an ANSI C compiler and the
  14 X development environment to use Mesa.
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  17 <p>Others have contributed drivers
  18 for the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows
  19 9x/NT, and Direct3D.
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  22 <p>
  23 The following files describe the details for various platforms.
  24 Be warned, some of these files (and drivers) may be very out of date.
  25 </p>
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  28 <LI><A HREF="README.X11">README.X11</A> - X Window System / Unix / Linux
  29 <LI><A HREF="README.WIN32">README.WIN32</A> - Microsoft Windows
  30 <LI><A HREF="README.VMS">README.VMS</A> - DEC VMS
  31 <LI><A HREF="README.GGI">README.GGI</A> - GGI
  32 <LI><A HREF="README.3DFX">README.3DFX</A> - 3Dfx/Glide driver
  33 <LI><A HREF="README.AMIWIN">README.AMIWIN</A> - Amiga Amiwin
  34 <LI><A HREF="README.BEOS">README.BEOS</A> - BeOS
  35 <LI><A HREF="README.D3D">README.D3D</A> - Direct3D driver
  36 <LI><A HREF="README.DJ">README.DJ</A> - DJGPP
  37 <LI><A HREF="README.LYNXOS">README.LYNXOS</A> - LynxOS
  38 <LI><A HREF="README.MINGW32">README.MINGW32</A> - Mingw32
  39 <LI><A HREF="README.NeXT">README.NeXT</A> - NeXT
  40 <LI><A HREF="README.OpenStep">README.OpenStep</A> - OpenStep
  41 <LI><A HREF="README.OS2">README.OS2</A> - OS/2
  42 <LI><A HREF="README.WINDML">README.WINDML</A> - WindML
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  47 The standard Mesa distribution only supports software-based rendering, with
  48 the exception of the 3Dfx Glide driver.
  49 Information about other hardware support follows.
  50 </p>
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  52 <ul>
  53 <li>DRI-based hardware support for 3dfx, Intel, Matrox, ATI with XFree86
  54 <blockquote>
  55         <p>The <a href="http://dri.sourceforge.net/" target="_parent">DRI architecture</a>,
  56         originally developed by Precision Insight, Inc. uses Mesa and
  57         provides hardware acceleration for a number of popular chipsets.<br>
  58         <br>
  59         The DRI is part of XFree86 4.0 and later.
  60         <br><br>
  61         If you download and install XFree86 4.x you do not need to
  62         install Mesa separately.  All the important parts of Mesa
  63         will be installed with the rest of XFree86.
  64 </blockquote>
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  67 <li>3dfx Voodoo1, Voodoo2, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3
  68 <blockquote>
  69 <p>All cards based on these chipsets should work with Linux and
  70 Windows 95 via 3dfx's Glide library.
  71 The Mesa/Glide driver is included with the Mesa distribution.
  72 You'll need to install the Glide header files and runtime library.
  73 </p>
  74 <p>
  75 David Bucciarelli wrote the original 3dfx driver for Mesa.<br>
  76 Daryll Strauss ported Glide to Linux.
  77 </p>
  78 </blockquote>
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  81 <li>Matrox G200/G400, nVidia RIVA, ATI Rage Pro, Intel i810 on Linux
  82 <blockquote>
  83 <p>The <a href="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/" target="_parent">
  84 Utah GLX project</a>
  85 (no longer active) developed drivers for these chipsets and others.
  86 </blockquote>
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  88 <li>Amiga Warp3D
  89 <blockquote>
  90 <p>Amiga systems can support 3D hardware with the Warp3D API.
  91 See <a href="http://www.haage-partner.com/3dworld" target="_parent">here</a>.
  92 </blockquote>
  93
  94 <li>Also see
  95 <blockquote>
  96 <p><a href="http://www.linux3d.org/" target="_parent">www.linux3d.org</a> for
  97 other 3D hardware info for Linux.
  98 </blockquote>
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 103 <b><em>Note:</em></b>
 104 If you have NVIDIA hardware in your computer,
 105 you should download and install NVIDIA's OpenGL library.  You may
 106 however, want to download Mesa in order to use its GLU and GLUT
 107 libraries, or assorted demo programs.</p>
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