Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:24:30 +0200
From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
To: "Martin Schlemmer [c]" <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? [u]
Message-ID: <20041024082430.GB11655@thundrix.ch>
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Salut,

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:19:07AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> > (3) How do you feel about the choice of neglecting 3D performance as a=
=20
> > priority?  How important is 3D performance?  In what cases is it not?
>=20
> Yeah, I think it is important - just for decent performance in
> gnome/kde, you need a card with accel RENDER support, as well as XV/GL
> for video.  Not to talk about those of us that are heavy gamers, or like
> me who like my ut2004/quake3/nvn once or twice a week.

OpenGL should be  enough to get RENDER working. The  rest may be based
on.

> The reality  of the issue  is just while  I love my linux,  I rather
> taint my kernel than crappy X performance or no gaming now and then.

The NVidia  driver hangs my system  after around 10 minutes,  and if I
write additional media drivers and other things, I sometimes end up with

if (ptr)
	ptr->blah(ptr);

failing with ptr being dereferenced as a NULL pointer, which shouldn't
happen as I just checked it.

To  people developing  the  kernels, NVidia  and  other closed  source
drivers are desasterous,  as you can't seem to find  out what the hell
they're doing, apart from graphics.

			    Tonnerre

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