On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:42:27PM -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2007 12:31, Henry House wrote: > > > > Thanks all for your comments on the usability of the proprietary > > drivers. However, that's not really what I was asking. I know that the > > proprietary drivers work (at least with current kernels); I am > > specifically interested in alternatives that I may be forced to used in > > the unfortunate event that NVidia stops supporting the CPU/kernel/OS > > combination I want to use before I retire the computer. > > ah, there is the 'nv' driver which works ok...
Henry was asking about alternative drivers with 3d acceleration. The nv drivers do not have any 3d accel. capabilities. I don't know of any open driver that has much beyond the simplest functionality. I haven't tried nouveau. Speaking to Henry's question about software (at least openGL) acceleration -- it's workable on a fast CPU. I actually played the quake 4 demo accidently in software emulation mode and it was almost playable on a single core ~2.6ghz Athlon64. Google Earth (which would probably be a closer approxmiation to your intended use) actually works pretty well in software. -t _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
