'Commercial Partners'
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Mar 31 20:17:05 UTC 2006
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:19:45PM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com>:
> >>I don't see any evidence for this for 2D. The problems all seem to be
> >>to do with 3D acceleration hardware in the past, present, and presumably
> >>in the future.
> >
> >If true, that would still a problem. The one guy I know who's a serious
> >graphics maven says that the wave of the future is 3D texture maps for
> >everything, including individual font glyphs.
>
> As Nicholas says, all is not completely rosy in the 2D garden.
There are a number of other cards, where the situation is worse.
Short of running their binary driver, the Matrox parhelia is
a really expensive way to run the vesa driver for example.
(The mga driver doesn't support anything newer than g550 iirc).
Dave
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