If you think X is fast for you now, go download the x server Riva released yesterday. It is significantly faster at 2D for me....and it supports OpenGL (MesaGL). The OpenGL isn't optimized yet, but supposedly when XF86 4.0 is released making direct access to 3D hardware, OpenGL should be significantly faster. Rick Thompson
-----Original Message----- From: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com [<A HREF="mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On">mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On</A> Behalf Of Ben Rosenberg Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:11 AM To: Lenz Grimmer Cc: SuSE Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] trashing SiS6326 for 3d card
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Ian M. Moore wrote:
What pci video cards support 3d for linux? I'd like something with opengl support!!!!!
Then you are currently pretty limited. Hardware-accelerated 3D is still under heavy development. Voodoo-based Cards are the only real option.
If you want a fast 3D card for MS Windows and a reasonable card
for XFree,
I would recommend one with the nVidia Riva TNT like the Diamond Viper 550 or the Elsa Erazor II.
I just upgraded my video card to a Diamond Viper 550 16 meg PCI card, and it fast as hell. I could not believe how much faster X is with this card. I would recommend it to anyone who can't go AGP at this time.
I am not upgrading my X86 box, because I am buying an Ultra10 for a workstation and using my X86 Linux box as a server on my soon to be installed DSL line :)
As it stands this is my machine and I am quite happy with it.
PII 266 on an Intel PD440FX MB Adaptec 2940 UW Controller (1) 2 gig SCSI2 HD ( boot/swap/home ) (2) 4.3 gig UWSCSI HD's ( usr/Win98 for work .. f**king PCanywhere and games ) 32X Teac SCSI CDROM 128 Megs of Ram (simms) Diamond Viper 550 16meg PCI SBAWE32 w/ 2 megs 2 3C509 10m ethernet cards ISA
Over all this machine is very fast ( tweaks ) and I guess it will do :)
/babble session over
laters,
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