On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:31:58AM +0100, Giles Constant wrote: > On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Charl P. Botha wrote: > > BTW, how is the DRI support for the 8500 doing? Do you have hardware opengl > > acceleration? > > Last time I checked, it was 'RSN'. Still is. I have a geforce 2 MX too, > but I'd rather use a card which doesn't have opengl drivers but will have > open source drivers one day, than a card which can do it now, but will > never have source :-)
So, you've paid $200 for a card that for all practical purposes is only being used for 2D graphics. I actually have to do real work (involving openGL) on my machines, so I prefer a card that can do it now, open or closed source. I also can't quite justify paying round about $200 for 2D functionality which can be had for much less. If I had the time, I would buy the thing and help hacking on the drivers, as I do think the card has great potential. However, at this moment I can't really identify with your philosophy on this matter. :) -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
