Re: 3D video card recommendations

From: Ian Romanick
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 11:36:04 EST


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Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:55:13 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.xgitech.com/
>>>
>>> Not the fastest pieces of hardware out there by some way, but they
>>>_do_ have open-source drivers.
>>
>>That's not entirely true. The DRI driver is closed source.
>
> DRI closed source ? You mean the fglrx driver from ati ?

No. He means the 3D driver for the Xgi cards. However, Xgi is
apparently working with some folks in the community to remedy this. I
haven't heard any updates in a *long* time, so it's possible that things
may have stalled.
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