Compliments

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 22:24, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 09:36 -0400, Aaron Bennett wrote:
> > Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > > I was really peed off with the 4k stack issue, I have to tell my bosses
> > > and customer fedora doesn't support 3D, (It doesn't)
> > > As soon as it is fixed that will all change.
> > >
> > That's not accurate.  Fedora supports 3D, just not Nvidia's proprietary, 
> > closed-source implementation of 3D support for their driver.  Please 
> > don't tell your boss that Fedora doesn't support 3D.  Instead, suggest 
> > to your boss that it might be wise to consider not purchasing video 
> > hardware from NVIDIA, who refuses to release the specifications of their 
> > cards so that it is possible for someone to write a true open-source, 
> > non-broken version of the nv driver which contains 3D support.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Aaron Bennett
> > UNIX Administrator
> > Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 3D works great for me on my laptop with the ATI chipset. I heard quite
> some time ago that ATI does provides some type of NDA materials to the X
> guys, maybe we can get an update from the man with the fancy window
> stick. Mharris comments please :-)
> 
> Also for the list a link to the window stick would be appropriate, hehe.
> 
> 
> Ted
> 
It seems to me this is not simply a 3d issue.  3d is reported to work
using the nvidia driver for most normal usage.  When running gl with the
4K stack it seems to lock up for some.  Others are using kernels patched
with the 8k stack to great effect with no lockups.