[geeks] PC question

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Fri Feb 21 16:52:38 CST 2003


On Friday 21 February 2003 22:09, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Xfree has open source Nvidia drivers that are 24bit and accelerated (but
> very badly), so it isn't exactly Nvidia's fault that the BeOS people
> can't do the same.

Last time I tried, they didn't. How fast reverse enineering goes! We finally 
have acceleration on our tnt2's...

> That said, Nvidia isn't exactly the most open source friendly.  But
> then, none of the companies are that great.  Last I heard (possibly out
> of data with the new weather channel financed work) ATI cards had open
> sourced drivers made from info provided by ATI, but they had no T&L
> acceleration, let alone shader support.

I have no idea WHAT they do in software and what not... 

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Frank Van Damme
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