Re: [Glide-devel] Fwd: vg init question

[levent <mli...@ya...>]

--- "Mike A. Harris" <mh...@re...> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, levent wrote:
> 
> >> >last note: i have tried them with this
> >> configuration:
> >> >gcc-2.95.3, asus p2b, 128mb ram, p2-350, nvidia
> >> tnt2u,
> >> >lots of nvidia drivers
> >> 
> >> /me wonders what an Nvidia user would be looking
> at
> >> Glide for.  
> >> ;o)
> >> 
> >> 
> >
> >sorry, my english isn't good really. i cannot
> >understand what do you mean. if you mean writing
> glide
> >emulators, my target isn't it. i'm just a graphic
> card
> >enhaustiant. 3dfx did a very educational card. it's
> >easy to understand and easy to change drivers for
> >debug. also it supports lots of compressed image
> >formats (i mean yuv, ai88 whatever..) in hardware. 
> >i also looked nvidias xfree4 2d drivers. it's not
> easy
> >as glide of course. if i can, i will convert
> utah-glx
> >nvidia drivers to xfree4.. soon :).
> 
> Glide is for 3dfx hardware only.  That is why I
> joked about it.  
> People compiling glide on a machine with non-3dfx
> hardware, are 
> building useless code.  ;o)
> 
> Nvidia drivers that come with XFree86 are 2D only. 
> To get 3D you 
> need to use Nvidia's binary only drivers which are
> unsupported.
> 
> Neither of them use glide or have anything to do
> with glide.
> 
> Hence the humor.  ;o)

:) i feel like moron who can't understand jokes. but
there is no problem.

glide on nvidia hardware is sometimes behaves better
than nvidia drivers. because nvidia drivers everytime
freeze machine completely. 



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