Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270950AbUJUUbs (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:31:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270938AbUJUU1R (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:27:17 -0400 Received: from ws.spps.com.br ([200.248.176.2]:57481 "EHLO ws.spps.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270839AbUJUUXZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:23:25 -0400 Message-ID: <41781AAE.7040008@quatro.com.br> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:23:10 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Fernando_O=2E_Kornd=F6rfer=22?= Reply-To: fok@quatro.com.br Organization: Quatro =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Inform=E1tica_Ltda=2E?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040918) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Miller CC: LKML Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? References: <4176E08B.2050706@techsource.com> <9e4733910410201808c0796c8@mail.gmail.com> <9e473391041020181150638b4@mail.gmail.com> <4177185A.9080708@sover.net> In-Reply-To: <4177185A.9080708@sover.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SPPS-MailScanner-Information: Contate a SPPS para maiores informacoes. +55 (51) 582-3666 X-SPPS-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 27 Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > OK - so the answer seems to be "if it does the right things, then it > may sell" It's hard to sell a card that doesn't do good 3D these days > (re: Matrox Parhelia). Speaking of the parhelia, I would look at that > feature set as a starting point. 10-bit color, multiscreen > accelerated 3D, dual DVI, gamma corrected glyph antialiasing, etc. > > So, let's try to figure out the right feature set. (that is what was > originally asked for, after all) > What I would like to have is a card thar plays nice with weird extended VGA text modes like 132x60 and good refresh rates. Most cards don't support it and I'm stuck with a 80x25 terminal (and I don't like the slow frame buffer modes) or the refresh sucks so much that my eyes bleed. Good 2D performance and quality is also required for desktop stuff like browsing, coding, DVD, etc. \m/ ---------------- fok@quatro.com.br - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/