On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: > From: "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: TWIG 2.6.2 > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help> > List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Subscribe: > <http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel>, > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe> List-Id: > FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-devel.flightgear.org> > List-Unsubscribe: > <http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel>, > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:30:32 -0000 > > "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 > >
You can always go with an ATI Radeon, that has open drivers > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
