"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My previous card was a Voodoo-3 ... this was a 16 bit card, 16 bit > textures, 16 bit depth buffer, etc. At the time the mesa based linux > drivers had some bugs which led to annoying visual artifacts, and > jumpy/jerky motion. >
Well in defense of a great company that got bought up and shutdown (not necessarily in that order) by the almighty competition...my voodoo3/3000 still works great. Admittedly it was touchy on X3.3.x and earlier X4.0.x, but I'm running with no issues at all right now with "decent" (by 1999 standards) performance. Smooth motion, no artifacts. So 3dFX should (posthumously) get credit for being the first real 3D card supporting Linux :-) Been thinking about upgrading and I'm somewhat undecided on whether I should get the open source supported Voodoo 5000 (getting cheap these days) or go with nVidia. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
