> However, my original question remain: Which card is usable with DRI open
> source drivers for modern games? Also, is the S3TC issue resolved for
> the cards I mentioned before: Mach64, G400, Banshee and Radeon 9000 PRO.
> Since I'm replying to your mail Vladimir, how about the TV-out issue
> especially with the GATOS drivers and for XFree86/X.org in general. Are
Federico Ulivi has written a TV-out driver for Radeon cards. AFAIK it
works with R100 and R200 cards that use Rage Theatre for TV-out.
(This excludes some laptop chipsets, some VE cards and newer cards that
use Rage Theatre 200).
> all these efforts in vain for GNU/Linux and other open source OSes. Only
> binary driver alternatives remains, or other OSes not to mention here..
Not necessarily.. Besides, keep in mind that sometimes there is no binary
alternative (for most WiFi cards for example).
Also, I think Intel has been playing nice - they released some code for
their Centrino WiFi, and, looking in the DRI CVS, they have their graphics
chipsets supported too. (Please correct me if I am wrong here).
best
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 00:54, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there any hope for open source drivers for high performance cards,
> > > taking into consideration the binary alternatives available for cards
> > > from ATI, Nvidia or Matrox (Parhelia), etc?
> >
> > One thing to keep in mind about this issue is that ATI and NVidia start
> > working on their 3d drivers even before their cards are released yet.
> >
> > We are still asking for documentation for the next to latest generation of
> > ATI cards (R300) (and, AFAIK, NVidia does not provide docs at all).
> >
> > So open source driver will always be late. However the question of how
> > late depends a lot on how easy it is to program using current
> > frameworks (i.e. Mesa, DRI, X11).
> >
> > best
> >
> > Vladimir Dergachev
> >
>
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