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7 <H1>Supported Systems and Drivers</H1>
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.
15 <p>Others have contributed drivers
16 for the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows
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22 Be warned, some of these files (and drivers) may be very out of date.
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
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.
51 <li>DRI-based hardware support for 3dfx, Intel, Matrox, ATI with XFree86
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>
57 The DRI is part of XFree86 4.0 and later.
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.
65 <li>3dfx Voodoo1, Voodoo2, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3
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.
73 David Bucciarelli wrote the original 3dfx driver for Mesa.<br>
74 Daryll Strauss ported Glide to Linux.
79 <li>Matrox G200/G400, nVidia RIVA, ATI Rage Pro, Intel i810 on Linux
81 <p>The <a href="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/" target="_parent">
83 (no longer active) developed drivers for these chipsets and others.
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>.
94 <p><a href="http://www.linux3d.org/" target="_parent">www.linux3d.org</a> for
95 other 3D hardware info for Linux.
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>