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Supported Systems and Drivers

@@ -12,98 +14,58 @@ supported on those systems. All you need is an ANSI C compiler and the X development environment to use Mesa.

Others have contributed drivers -for the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows +

+The DRI hardware drivers for the X.org server and XFree86 provide +hardware accelerated rendering for chips from ATI, Intel, Matrox, 3dfx +and others on Linux and FreeBSD. +

+ +

+Drivers for other assorted platforms include: +the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows 9x/NT, and Direct3D.

-The following files describe the details for various platforms. -Be warned, some of these files (and drivers) may be very out of date. +Details about particular drivers follows:

README.X11 - X Window System / Unix / Linux -
README.WIN32 - Microsoft Windows -
README.VMS - DEC VMS -
README.GGI - GGI -
README.3DFX - 3Dfx/Glide driver -
README.AMIWIN - Amiga Amiwin -
README.BEOS - BeOS -
README.D3D - Direct3D driver -
README.DJ - DJGPP -
README.LYNXOS - LynxOS -
README.MINGW32 - Mingw32 -
README.NeXT - NeXT -
README.OpenStep - OpenStep -
README.OS2 - OS/2 -
README.WINDML - WindML +
DRI hardware +drivers for the X Window System +
Xlib software driver for the X Window System +and Unix-like operating systems +
Microsoft Windows (README.WIN32) +
DEC VMS (README.VMS)

-The standard Mesa distribution only supports software-based rendering, with -the exception of the 3Dfx Glide driver. -Information about other hardware support follows. -

- -

DRI-based hardware support for 3dfx, Intel, Matrox, ATI with XFree86 -
-
The DRI architecture, - originally developed by Precision Insight, Inc. uses Mesa and - provides hardware acceleration for a number of popular chipsets.
-
- The DRI is part of XFree86 4.0 and later. -

- If you download and install XFree86 4.x you do not need to - install Mesa separately. All the important parts of Mesa - will be installed with the rest of XFree86. -
+
Deprecated Systems
- -
3dfx Voodoo1, Voodoo2, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3 -
-
All cards based on these chipsets should work with Linux and -Windows 95 via 3dfx's Glide library. -The Mesa/Glide driver is included with the Mesa distribution. -You'll need to install the Glide header files and runtime library. -

-David Bucciarelli wrote the original 3dfx driver for Mesa.
-Daryll Strauss ported Glide to Linux. +These drivers have not been maintained and are being deprecated. +They can be saved if someone steps up to help.
-
+
- 3dfx/Glide (README.3DFX) +
- GGI (README.GGI) +
- Amiga Amiwin (README.AMIWIN) +
- BeOS (README.BEOS) +
- Direct3D driver (README.D3D) +
- DJGPP (README.DJ) +
- LynxOS (README.LYNXOS) +
- Mingw32 (README.MINGW32) +
- NeXT (README.NeXT) +
- OpenStep (README.OpenStep) +
- OS/2 (README.OS2) +
- WindML (README.WINDML) +
-
Matrox G200/G400, nVidia RIVA, ATI Rage Pro, Intel i810 on Linux -
-
The -Utah GLX project -(no longer active) developed drivers for these chipsets and others. -
- -
Amiga Warp3D -
-
Amiga systems can support 3D hardware with the Warp3D API. -See here. -
- -
Also see -
-
www.linux3d.org for -other 3D hardware info for Linux. -
- -

- -

-Note: -If you have NVIDIA hardware in your computer, -you should download and install NVIDIA's OpenGL library. You may -however, want to download Mesa in order to use its GLU and GLUT -libraries, or assorted demo programs.

- +And for historical reference: +

Utah GLX drivers +

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Supported Systems and Drivers

Deprecated Systems