IIRC, this card *does* have some GL capability, but not the texture-mapping that most folks want from 3D. I used to run a Millenium II, 8MB AGP card that came before the 450 and 550 models, and at that time I was checking in on the Utah-GLX group's work on X, I think you can at least get hot acceleration on basic GL shapes, like most of the Xsceensavers, but it is NOT a gaming card by any standards (except tetris!). I even managed [eventually] to get some Java3D to accelerate (it was also non-texture-mapped) which was a Real Big Pain... but I was finally impressed with my first AGP graphics card / =
The driver situation seems hopeful, I'm noticing that many drivers become eventually available, even if it takes a lot of time and product-distribution to allow for a successful reverse-engineering. Usually if someone donates a bunch of cards to a devel group something good will come of it! I'm looking forward to a multi-headed Radeon All-in-Wonder 8500DV, if they'll make such a beast, and drivers... I don't need much high-end gaming but I want decent basic 3D, without a broken kernel. DRI on xinerama would be essential! I hope that gets worked out -- I notice from watching the MythTV project that the WinTV PVR cards are getting a lot of driver development, so it looks like the Free World will be getting better hardware mpeg capabilities -- there are only one or two other cards that support mpeg compression in hardware, and they are relatively specialized, costing ~$500 and up. I'm getting hungry to build some new toys, especially the MythTV box I've been ranting about for so long! Well, take care y'all. Ciao, Ben PS - I helped Drake build a new counter at our Country Fair booth yesterday, am headed back out this afternoon -- the Fair site is looking and feeling fabulous! On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 10:41:27 -0700 "baggab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... | I would be interested in your future progress with twin monitors. I | have tested the twin monitor capability of two cards under windows. | | I found the Matrox G550 video card was: a dog! (well not a complete | dog if it continues to work well under RH.) | | Pro: it worked flawlessly under RH 8.0 (that's why I bought it,) the | twin monitor capability software performed well under windows. | | Con: does not do OpenGL (that's what I bought it for!!!,) software | needed a patch for a major bug, card is still fritzing under windows | (I dropped from optimal to default in the resolution.) | ... | Brian -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
