On Tue, 31 May 2005, FRLinux wrote:
> I think we're up for a long thread :) Back in the days (not so far
> away) NVIDIA was the only one to provide proper 3D accelerated
> drivers for Linux
You're so wrong.
Back in the day we had:
- proof of concept Matrox MGA2016W driver (did gouraud shading that
kind of thing)
which led to:
- Matrox MGA-G{1,2}00 driver, Utah-GLX (John Carmack hacked on this)
which led to:
- DRI and ATi Radeon, Matrox G200, drivers
all open-source.
regards,
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