On Sunday 23 December 2001 01.00, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 17:27, Anders Johansson wrote:
Far better than the OSI compliant drivers you get with Matrox.
I disagree. The G450 is not comparable to any nVidia product; the G450 is meant for graphics and video professionals, the GeForce family is primarily for gamers and secondarily for 3D professionals, an arena where nVidia is barely dipping it's toes in the pool. Check out the scores on a 3DLabs Wildcat doing real CAD functions compared to a Quadra2 (or 3, whatever they're at these days), and you'll see what I mean.
Well, you missed my point. I wasn't doing a comparison with other cards in actual performance, just a reflection on how well things are supported compared to the windows drivers available. I've tried in vain to get even normal usage out of the accelerated drivers put out by matrox on two separate G200 systems. The standard SVGA driver enabled me to use the system, but not with any great performance compared to the windows driver for the same card. Others I have spoken to have had similar experiences. Newer hardware is reportedly better supported. And about 3DLabs Wildcat, where are the drivers? I could only find a commercial driver from Xi, and the 3DLabs web page just said that they "recognized the significance of linux" and that drivers were under development.
Plus they have stated that the reason they're not OpenSourcing their work is that they have 3rd party license issues.
Bullshit. Licenses to whom? The OpenGL consortium? Rambus?
SGI.
projects have died (I read that the DRI team has lost its funding. Will Matrox et al. have 3D support in future?)
They've lost funding because there aren't any new 3D chips being released, and thus no contracts for drivers for new products.
No, VA Linux sacked the DRI developers working for them. This was in september. I guess things could have happened since then, but I haven't heard about it. Precision Insight was bought by VA in early 2000 and doesn't exist as a solo company anymore AFAICT //Anders