Re: 3D video card recommendations

From: Ville Syrjälä (syrjala_at_sci.fi)
Date: 11/07/05

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Date:	Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:51:02 +0200

    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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Ville Syrjälä
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