On Thursday 02 October 2003 23:35, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
I was looking at video cards and noticed that the Oxygen GVX420 is now less
than $350.00 rather than well over $2K like it was 2 or 3 years ago.
Is this a good choice for a Linux only system (well I plan to install
Solaris but I don't run Windows except 3.10 with WABI)? So, I will only be
using OpenGL for 3D.
The XFree86 site says that the chips are supported for accelerated
rendering but gives no details.
As Alan said, only 2D acceleration is supported in XFree86. You have a few
other options open to you, depending on your pockets ans skills:
1: XIG have commercial Accelerated X servers for this and other 3DLabs cards.
These are quite good, from what I have tested and support features not likely
to be seen in XFree86 like stereo display. This as $129 American.
2: 3DLabs now provide XFree86 drivers for their WildcatIII and Wildcat4 line.
These are official drivers so probably contain all the features you'd expect.
Not sure about the licencing, as I only have older cards. This won't support
the Oxygen line but you might be interested in getting a wildcatIII.
3: Check out the latest DRI sources, search for the gamma drivers, read up on
Video card programming and start programming away. Sven had put a bit of
effort into this at one time, but school and life got in the way. Others have
also tried picking up the code, but so far not much has happened.
Links to info or the opinion of somebody that uses one would be
appreciated.
Hope you can use some of this info.
Cheers,
John Gay
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