Re: 3d accelleration support

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:

>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:40:09 -0500
>From: Noah L. Meyerhans <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
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>Subject: 3d accelleration support
>
>I'll admit that I don't pay super close attention, but it seems to me
>that there's a growing trend among the top 3d chipset makers to provide
>their own proprietary accellerated drivers for XFree86.  ATI and NVidia
>are the two examples I can think of, and it seems like they're the best
>3d chipset makers.
>
>I'm still using an older 3dfx Voodoo3 because I know that the full
>programming specs are available and I can get open source accellerated
>drivers for it.  If I were to replace this card with another 3d card,
>what would be a safe chipset to select if I want to stick with
>open source drivers?

For Red Hat Linux 8.0 - ATI Radeon 7500.  Or, if you can live 
without 3D until the next release, or until it is fully working 
in rawhide - an ATI Radeon 8500

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat