Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:23 pm, jaqui wrote:
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>>sis uses opengl, that one shouldn't be to dificult, my card is sis6326 (
>>old I know )and runs, just no current reliable 3d accel with it. xfree
>>3.2.0 has experimental never seemed to improve though.
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> I presume you meant 4.2.0; the SiS chipset sucks - they cut too many corners -
> consequently the drivers are difficult to make work reliably. With the
> original 6326 cards I could line up four machines with four identical 6326
> cards and get four different levels of functionality from
> everything-in-software through maybe everything-but-cursor in software and
> cursor-only-in-software to 100% functional hardware acceleration.
>
> Cheers; Leon
>
no, actually drakx says that experimental 3d hardware acceleration
support available with xfree 3.2.6
when installing 8.2, so the support would have been partially there back
then.
it isan ancient card, and even with current drivers updating it there
are a few problems. ( tested it recently under windows with newest
drivers from sis )
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