'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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