[geeks] Jesus this guy could be me

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:03:31PM +0100, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> > I haven't heard particularly good things about the open source radeon
> > drivers, but I keep hoping that that will change.  At the moment the
> > Weather Channel seems to be sponsering development, but I haven't heard
> > anything about T&L support.
> 
> There's no card which has so many drivers for the same platform as this one 
> ;-)
> 
> There will normally be accelerated drivers in XFree86 4.3. I installed a lot 
> of binary snapshots over the last half year or so, the last thing I did was 
> th compile the dri sources from cvs, which worked pretty well with quake3. 
> Except for the mouse (only the buttons worked, but no movement), but that 
> was a quake bug (which is now solved). Also, I'm talking about r200 based 
> cards. radeon 9000 and so on are r250 or r300 based cards, who have very 
> buggy support. dri just lacks developping time unfortunately... 
> 
> > The old RivaTNT drivers seemed fairly decent to me.  But, just
> > supporting a rasterizer is a lot easier than supporting a T&L system I
> > guess.
> 
> Indeed. Actyally I owned a tnt2, which made my system crash line windows 9x. 
> And there's nothing you can do about it. And if there's a bug, I think 
> nvidia would rather like you to buy a geforce3 then to fix it. That's why I 
> find open source drivers important. And availability of hardware specs. 
> That said, you have to be an active xfree86 developper and sign an nda to 
> develop radeon drivers.

My TNT2 card never crashed the machine until I tried using Nvidia's
proprietary drivers for it.  I'm suspicious that the people doing free
software drivers aren't paying enough attention to optimization.

 
> > > Who are Linux Media Labs? :-)
> >
> > http://www.linuxmedialabs.com/
> >
> > They make the LML33 which is an MJPEG board that is to my understanding
> > somewhat related to the Iomega Buz or the Pinnacle DC10+.  Except they
> > charge a lot more than the other two go for.  They now have a LML33R10
> > board.  I'm not sure what the difference is other than it is less than
> > half the cost, but still not particularly cost competitive compared to
> > the others.
> 
> Ahha. I thought it was a joke of yours :-)
> 
> -- 
> Frank Van Damme
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Joshua D. Boyd