Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261981AbUJZE0i (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:26:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261951AbUJZBis (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:38:48 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:47576 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262094AbUJZBXy (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:23:54 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:52:06 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Lars Roland Cc: Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? Message-ID: <20041025225206.GA30574@thundrix.ch> References: <4176E08B.2050706@techsource.com> <4ad99e05041025093856cd16ba@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ad99e05041025093856cd16ba@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1652 Lines: 45 --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Salut, On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:38:48PM +0200, Lars Roland wrote: > As I said, it should have enough 3D features to be used together with > xorg both now and in the future - so you should look hard at what > Longhorn /Mac OS X have done and decide what features to implement. I > do not care if it can run doom3 or not, I have yet to come across a > graphic card that can run the latest games and have decent Linux > support (this is especially true when you are running dual head). You don't want good Longhorn support, as currently at least Longhorn still uses the proprietary GDI 2D drawing algorithms, and DirectDraw in rare cases. MacOS/X does the drawing and effects in OpenGL, which is what you want. As will X.Org. So you want OpenGL support, and you'll be done. (Once framebuffers are being drawn in OpenGL as well, which isn't impossible to happen.) Maybe we'll need a graphics card that does OpenGL *only*... Tonnerre --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfYOV/4bL7ovhw40RAmVAAJwKhgllgInS9HKB87h7lJ7zw/IUJgCcCZCX AGF8npxRd3zH0YADd/VecwY= =Qief -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft-- - 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/