* ATI Radeon 9x00 2D support added, and 3D support added for the Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, and M9. The 3D support for the Radeon now includes hardware TCL.
Looks like pretty good support to me... I really prefer that to a binary-only driver such as NVidia's.
takes on a more nefarious purpose. I've had several people try out Linux via VMWare, since it wouldn't touch thier main OS. One of my best advocay tools would be gone. Not to mention the headaches that some Mac users would now face with SoftPC off of the market.
Well, there's a much better way to try Linux now, without touching anything on the harddisk. That's Knoppix, of course... no spcial setup required, just boot from the CD and you're set. No need for VMWare here IMHO.
The Utah-GLX driver is now available for the G400, G200, Intel 810, Mach64 and S3 Virge cards... Unfortunately it doesn't (and won't) work with XFree86 4.0 (including the 3.9.X snapshots):-( My hope is that both projects would merge as soon as possible so that XF4.0 can have 3D acceleration from the start!
Let's not be too hard on 3dfx: for quite some time they were the only ones to provide any 3D hardware acceleration _at_all_! Granted, open-sourcing the driver would be nice! (Starting with the obsolete Voodoo I, for example?)
Well, a linux port of PovLab would be really nice. I just had a short look at the code: it's written for Watcom C/C++ 10.6, so at least it's 32-bit! Now we'll have to see how their graphic library can be mapped onto svgalib or X11. I think I read that the Watcom graphics were supposed to be M$ C compatible; can anyone comment on that?
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From XFree86 4.3.0 release notes:
2.1. Video Driver Enhancements
* ATI Radeon 9x00 2D support added, and 3D support added for the Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, and M9. The 3D support for the Radeon now includes hardware TCL.
Looks like pretty good support to me... I really prefer that to a binary-only driver such as NVidia's.
Well, there's a much better way to try Linux now, without touching anything on the harddisk. That's
Knoppix, of course... no spcial setup required, just boot from the CD and you're set. No need for VMWare here IMHO.
REAL mice also have WHEEL.
This is irrelevant, since REAL keyboards have a PgDn key...
2 words: source code...
The Utah-GLX driver is now available for the G400, :-(
G200, Intel 810, Mach64 and S3 Virge cards...
Unfortunately it doesn't (and won't) work with
XFree86 4.0 (including the 3.9.X snapshots)
My hope is that both projects would merge as soon
as possible so that XF4.0 can have 3D acceleration
from the start!
Let's not be too hard on 3dfx: for quite some time they were the only ones to provide any 3D hardware acceleration _at_all_! Granted, open-sourcing the driver would be nice! (Starting with the obsolete Voodoo I, for example?)
Well, a linux port of PovLab would be really nice.
I just had a short look at the code: it's written
for Watcom C/C++ 10.6, so at least it's 32-bit!
Now we'll have to see how their graphic library
can be mapped onto svgalib or X11. I think I read
that the Watcom graphics were supposed to be M$ C
compatible; can anyone comment on that?