[H-GEN] While we're at it

David Jericho david.jericho at bytecomm.com.au
Wed Oct 23 06:28:13 EDT 2002


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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:55:06PM +1000, 3 Blokes wrote:
> 1) Buy a 3d card that X-Windows has a 3d accelerated driver for(geforces are
> the only cards I know of).

I know of Matrox, ATI, and Nvidia all having accelerated drivers,
along with some of the more expensive rare cards.

> There is also an alternate opengl implementation called Mesa Gl(I think :P,
> maybe Mesa 3d?) and Mesa appears to have accelerated drivers for a few cards
> that X-Windows doesn't, what sort of 3D card are you running???

Mesa is pretty much considered obseleted, a lot of it has been merged
into X itself.

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David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd


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