I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Feb 13 19:22:54 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:14 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> paul cooke wrote:
> > 
> > It's software 3D (extremely slow), NOT accelerated 3D... for that you have to 
> > use the nvidia driver, NOT the nv driver.
> > 
> 
> I do not believe this is true.  Depending on exactly which card you 
> have, the mesa drivers very well may provide accelerated 3D support. 
> I'm using a Radeon 9800 Pro and the open source mesa drivers now provide 
> impressive accelerated results with glxgears, though sometimes it locks 
> up, so YMMV.

ATI is not the same as Nvidia.  Many ATI cards support accelerated 3D
with open source drivers.  No Nvidia card does.

Lee





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