Re: 3d accelleration support

[kwall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:13:54PM +0100, Alexander Stohr wrote:
> > If I were to replace this card with another 3d card,
> > what would be a safe chipset to select if I want to stick with
> > open source drivers?
> 
> Of course, publicly availabel documentation has significantly
> decreased over the last decade. To my knowledge there are only
> few documents availabel at all as of today.
> 
> That far as it concerns XFree86 there are severeal OpenSource
> driver projects running for current hardware, namely for the 
> ATI Radeons, for the S3 Savage, for the SiS, for Chips&Techn.,
> for some Intel integrated ones, and possibly a few more vendors.
> 
> For 3D you should have a look at http://dri.sf.net in order
> to get a current view on what is availabel for your purposes.

3dfx are a rathole, if you can still get them. It looks like the 
choices are Intel, ATI, Matrox, SiS, and 3Dlabs.

Kurt
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