which 3D card should i buy
i browser many resources about mesa,glide,glx,dri,xfree,3dfx ...
i just don't get the point.
i'd like to hear from a programmer which card is good
and which is a design failure ;)
as far as i understood it:
if i write a program, i can use OpenGL.
i can also add GLU
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Erik Thiele wrote:
which 3D card should i buy
[.. everything boils down to GL or rather mesa ..]
Well, you can't go wrong with 3dfx. It's got the most stable highest
performance drivers out there. The g400 is just not that fast yet if you
want a
On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Erik Thiele wrote:
which 3D card should i buy
[.. everything boils down to GL or rather mesa ..]
Well, you can't go wrong with 3dfx. It's got the most stable highest
performance drivers out there.
True if you want to run fullscreen, and you
Due to demand. I have started the linux console project. The goal is to
design a new multihead console system for linux. I hope to have it ready
to be ported right into the 2.5.X kernels. I see alot of people have
worked on new and different ideas for a console system. I would like to
see this
True if you want to run fullscreen, and you can live with the other
limitations ie 16 bit colour and Z buffer, and 256x256 textures maximum.
The Voodoo 4 and 5 overcome these limitations however, and I am just waiting
for them to come out...
Also the voodoo 4 and 5 have a geometric
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Firstname Lastname wrote:
Sometimes when i'm running X and run fbset (using the fbdev matrox driver),
Thats a bad idea. A patch will be going in to 2.3.X to not allow this.
my screen hoses... if i switch VC's my screen is still hosed. however, if
i type,
On 27 Feb 2000, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Egger) writes:
2. Which resources are they regarding to?
Anything, but currently they are only used for DirectBuffers.
Could they used for z-buffer, alpha-buffer, etc ?
Yes.
How can I do that?
BTW: I
Hi folks !
Here in Germany, we recently had a sponsored game hit the productivity of
windows users quite hard. It was called "Moorhuhn" (swamp chicken - don't
know the correct name for it) and the objective is to shoot down
innocent-looking chicken that fly around on the screen.
Well ... as
