Re: 3D video card recommendations

["Ville Syrjälä" <syrjala@sci.fi>]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:50:39PM +0100, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On 11/7/05, Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi> wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:55:13 +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:42:51AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 08:42 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > people who buy a 3D card for linux that depends on a closed source
> > >> > module take a few risks, and they should be aware of them (I suspect
> > >> > they are) so let me make some of them explicit:
> > >>
> > >> Are there good 3D cards that don't depend on a proprietary module, that
> > >> can run on a AMD64 board?  That was pretty much my questing to begin
> > >> with :)
> > >
> > >    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, I mean the XGI drivers.

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