X on GL won't ship anywhere for at least a year. It will probably be two years before it is in wide spread use. You can get good 3D cards for $35 now, in two years due to Longhorn all systems will be shipping with them.
I still own an 8086 based machine with no protected mode, does that mean that Linux should not support protect mode? You can;t look backwards at hardware support, if you do you will never add any new features. There are plans for supporting non-accelerated cards, but you can't expect them to perform like a decent 3D one. No amount of software is going to make my 8086 play a reasonable game of Quake. --- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:07:59PM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote: > > X on GL has no impact on remote X. Tests with glitz show a 100:1 speed > > improvement for local drawing. > > ... on 3D-heavy cards, no? > > I wonder what those same tests would show for the S3 Trio64 my sister > runs, or the ATI RageIIC my mother runs. I'm not disparaging your > efforts, but: > * A first-class windowing system is wasted if all the apps around are > crap, or don't make use of it, or both. > * Have you tested on lower-end cards, or only the new, insane, > 3D-centric cards? A performance hit on already-slow graphics > hardware would be bad. > > -- > Daniel Stone > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > freedesktop.org: powering your desktop > http://www.freedesktop.org > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
