William Gallafent wrote:
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:34, Bryan J. Smith wrote: [snip] [re TNT2]
Those cards are 6+ generations** (over 5 years**) old.
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Exactly! ... since one can buy a brand new (and _much_ faster than TNT2) nVIDIA card (geforce mx4000) which _is_ supported by nVIDIA's accelerated drivers, on AGP for less than UKP20 (or PCI for less than 30), then why not just do that to use xgl? Then sell the TNT2 on eBay (to a museum ;)
Or, one could just install an old enough version of xorg/XFree86 that you can use an old enough version of nVIDIA's accelerated driver. Or port the UtahGLX driver to DRI!
What's wrong with you people! Were is your GNU GPL spirit? For now I just buy computer parts that have data sheets freely available or enough information for a good driver. That's a good way to support the really GNU/Linux Friendly enterprises. ...and support Linux in general. But, on the Video Card segment... is though! Just nVidia and ATI... both on war. Not a friendly situation.