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Supported Systems and Drivers

+ +

+Mesa was originally designed for Unix/X11 systems and is still best +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 +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 +Be warned, some of these files (and drivers) may be very out of date. +

+ +

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 +

+ + +

+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. +
+ + +
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. +
+
+ + +
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The +Utah GLX project +(no longer active) developed drivers for these chipsets and others.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.

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