Re: [Plib-devel] I'm outta here.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:

> The current state of the nvidia utah-glx support is such that I'm
> about ready to go by a voodoo3 ...  the latest utah-glx stuff out of
> CVS is utterly broke for my TNT2 ... no textures, 0.5 fps, completely
> brings the machine to it's knees when rendering ... software only mesa
> *is* faster and much less disruptive to the machine.  I'm not a happy
> member of the nvidia band wagon right now.
> 
> If I didn't have to buy a new transmitter for my new R/C plane, I
> would have a voodoo3 in my hand right now.

Uck!  That's terrible.  I *hate* my Voodoo-3, I actually prefer the
Voodoo-2!  The trouble with the V3 is that because it drives the 2D
as well as the 3D, the 3D bits-per-pixel has to be the same as the
2D setting - which means that you have to have a sucky 16 bit 2D display
because the Voodoo engine can only do 16 bit 3D.  On the old V1 and V2,
the 3D hardware was completely unknown to the 2D stuff - so you could
get a decent 2D card and run it at 24 or 32 bpp and still get 3D accelleration.

The V3's pixel fill rate is hardly any better than a pair of V2's in SLI
mode - and it has hardly any other advantages.
 
> > > BTW: SuSE 6.4 (release date: end of this month) will come with XFree
> > > 4.0. But it won't be the default setting.
> >
> > Hmmm - sounds like I should hold off installing my GeForce until I
> > get SuSE 6.4 and hope the new nVidia stuff is out by then.
> 
> The most recent rumor I heard is that nvidia is not planning on using
> the XFree 4.0 / DRI infrastructure for their drivers ... they plan to
> forge their own path and do something else which no one is quite sure
> what, how, when, or why.  This is the rumor I heard.

One might speculate that their recent nuptuals with SGI may have had
an influence on that decision...but then being selected by M$ for the
Xbox hardware means that they'll be a pretty schitzophrenic organization.
 
      8-(

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