Re: 3D video card recommendations

Ville Syrjälä
2005-11-07T15:34:22Z

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.

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