In reply to Martin Donlon's flatulent wordings,
> Both. There is an accelerated SVGA X server, accelerated Mesa GLX drivers
Companies like Nvidia and Matrox boast the same
> AND complete integrated DRI X 4.0 drivers.
I'll have to tip my hat to 3dfx for that, they seem to be way ahead of the
game with respect to DRI. That is not to say however that nobody else is
working on DRI (which they are)
> To be honest, if your talking about accelerated 3d graphics and linux, your
> talking about 3dfx.
3dfx had a massive head start over all the other 3d companies out there,
remember a couple of years ago when they had a near monopoly on the PC 3d
accelerator market (despite making an inferior product to the only competitor
at the time, NEC's PowerVR), you either bought 3dfx or your card wouldn't work
with the latest games. Practically every 3d company under the sun has caught
up now, a couple even surpassing them (Nvidia, ATI, whoever makes the savage
2000, s3 I think). This is the same situation with Linux drivers, they had
the luxury of putting those out while the fledgling 3d companies were playing
catch up on Windows, thanks to all the recent Linux publicity though, no 3d
card would be caught dead without accelerated drivers when DRI is out good and
proper.
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