On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:13, Greg Twyford wrote: > That's interesting, as I've had to install 3rd party 3D drivers for > nVidia into Red Hat & Mandrake, while most flavours of Linux seem to > have the ATI 3D drivers available natively.
There are two kind of drivers - those that come with X,org or XFree, and those provided by the vendors. Both types of drivers support most hardware acceleration features for 2D, and some for 3D. But only the driver provided by nvidia supports *all* features, and due to the kernel interface some even faster than their Windows implementation (my son gets significantly higher frame rates running his games on Linux via Cedega emulation layer than natively on windows on the same machine) For servers it doesn't really matter since you hardly ever will use your graphic card anyway, but for my desktops it is important that my graphic cards support screen rotation - our wide TFT screens can be swivelled from landscape to portrait for more comfortable document reading - a feature anybody here who got used to it wonders how we could do without it in the past. Do the ATI drivers nowadays support screen rotation too? Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
