[ILUG] Future of Mesa ?

[Martin Donlon]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Smelly Pooh wrote:

> 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
But, sadly, Nvidia's GLX drivers are 4 times slower than their Windows
counterparts:/

> > 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.
All the praise must really go to one man - Daryll Strauss. He was 3dfx's
only "Linux Guy" before 3dfx Open Sourced their specs. Sadly in that
respect 3dfx were beind everyone else, they only open sourced their specs
after Nvidia did:/