Joal Heagney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > It runs gracefully on the 3dfx (tdfx) configuration.
> >
> > > Self-installed NVIDIA drivers from tgz on a PCI Creative TNT2 VANTA with 32
> > > MB.
> >
> > Yes. Closed-source sucks.
>
> Okay. *excited* Are you saying that there is an opensource 3d driver for
> the NVIDIA videocards? I've just installed a NVIDIA TNT2 Vanta card, and
Yes there is, with XFree-3.3, but it has really nothing to do with a
production level one. It just sucks ass, but this time because of
performance et al.
> while I like the 3D acceleration, I'm sick of it occasionally taking out
> my xserver. I improved things a while back by upgrading from KDE2.1 to
> KDE2.2, and again by upgrading the glibc's. (I'm running a hybrid
> LM8.0/Cooker system - with buggy packages in 8.0 replaced by more up-to
> date packages from Cooker.) The biggest gripe I have with the NVIDIA
> drivers is that they don't seem to build against the post 8.0 kernels.
> *sighs* Maybe it's time I upgraded from X4.0.3 to X4.1?
I'm using a 3dfx-3 card, I occasionally play Quake3 and I never have any
X-server abort.
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
