I have an Diamond TNT2 and have never had a problem with it at all, and as
shown below from the FAQ on nvidia's web page, it's pretty clear that
there is indeed acceleration. Get full details and the modified drivers
from below.
Note: Not only did nvidia GPL their drivers, 3DFX has not, and will only
support linux and hardware acceleration with binary releases at this time.
So whereever you heard this, it is no longer true at all...
>From the Nvidia home page at
http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html
Q. What are the differences in the 2D portion of the X server from the
3.3.3.1 version?
A. More 2D acceleration has been added. Specifically stippled pattern
fills; the logout screen in KDE was driving me crazy! The glyph
rendering routines have all been hooked and accelerated at a high
level. Some bugs in the video clock routines have been fixed
(some people mentioned mode switches hanging - hopefully fixed). The
X server now recognizes all TNT and TNT2 variants.
Q. How do I get applications to use the 3D hardware
acceleration?
(etc...)
Later,
David
"Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote:
> I remember hearing somewhere that one gets no harware video accelleration
> when using a TNT2 based video card in Linux, but Voodoo3 users do. Is this
> correct? What about the Voodoo Banshee (Creative Labs 3D Blaster AGP)?
> Will I get the benefit of hardware acceleration with this card in Linux?
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
