Hi Mayuresh, NetBSD users,
(if it works reasonably well, I think it is your best option with this
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:42:26 +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
>
> I have an old Nvidia GeForce3 video card, which is supported by
> xf86-video-nv x11 driver available in pkgsrc.
hardware)
That's expected, unfortunately.
> Till now I never tried to check whether 3D games etc. would work on
> NetBSD. I decided to try out a couple of games on NetBSD - tuxracer and
> supertuxkart.
>
> As such the acceleration these games need is not working and some
Unfortunate also that it is not as simple as that.
> searching around tells me that nouveau module is supposed to provide
> that.
These are two different things. Both would actually be required, and then
> Unlike other platforms where there is xf86-video-nouveau, on NetBSD
> there is libdrm_nouveau.so.
more; but read on.
I wrote about this back in February 2010:
> So the instruction "use nouveau as the driver" does not work on NetBSD.
>
> How to make use of nouveau module on X11 (pkgsrc) on NetBSD.
>
> I am on NetBSD 6.0 GENERIC on i386 with pkgsrc x11.
http://people.defora.org/~khorben/place/blog/82/Using-xf86-video-nouveau-
on-NetBSD
The situation is simple, and hasn't changed:
- xf86-video-nouveau post-July 2009 requires KMS;
- NetBSD does not have KMS to this day;
- libdrm_nouveau is not enough and requires kernel code too;
- nobody has ported it to NetBSD yet (that I know of)
- I doubt xf86-video-nouveau had any (decent) 3D support at the time
anyway.
The following video sums it up very well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw
I tried porting the old nouveau DRM code to NetBSD about three years ago.
I ended up doing the sane thing: buying supported hardware from ATI/AMD
and ditching my NVidia card. I even bought an expensive one because they
simply deserve it.
HTH,
--
khorben