That is a truly lovely alternative for people with money. Also, the only good ATI drivers are closed-source and x86-only. Some of us care about such things.
Many people on this list doubtless are quite poor (I know I am) and merely have an old surplus Sparc given by a friend. It is quite insulting to say "Well, we turned off all accelerated 3D support so you can have pretty fonts, without giving you a choice as to which you find a higher priority; if you don't like it, spend 3.5 kilodollars on some fancy-schmantzy Sun hardware AND write your own drivers, or just switch to x86." Frankly, I'd rather have accelerated 3D than pretty fonts. Why have a 3D workstation if it's just about useless for 3D? (And DON'T even TRY telling me that software OpenGL rendering is "good enough", or anything more than "absolute crap".) On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:45:42 -0700 > From: David S. Miller <[email protected]> > To: JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Subject: Re: Direct rendering: No > > On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:29:01 -0400 (EDT) > JLB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Suggest an alternative then. One with 3D acceleration support -and- nice > > font support. > > An x86 system with an ATI Radeon :-) > > For sparc64, no such options exist currently until someone gets > the ATI Radeon support working on that platform. If I personally > had a SB1500 I'd be working on that myself, but at $3000 USD > it's out of my price range for fun toys to play with currently. > -- Jessica L. Blank, Systems Administrator, twu.net Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
