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  22 Be warned, some of these files (and drivers) may be very out of date.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