Am Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2004 20:20 schrieb Philipp Klaus Krause:
> >>Thank you for doing this work. We really need to get the open-source
> >>ATI driver on par with the propretary driver (both feature-wise and
> >>performance-wise).
> >
> > But sadly we will NEVER match it.
> >
> > NO SmoothVision, HyperZ docu ever....
>
> The nonfree xig driver has been developed without HyperZ docs and
> outperforms fglrx.
Are you sure.
I thought Xig had it all before.
Do you have actual numbers?
Haven't looked at them for very long time, but I bought the first version of
there X server 1994 (?) for mga.
> >>Even though I just have a Radeon 9200, I'm very excited about the
> >>ongoning R300 effort and with there was a similar project for NVidia
> >>cards too.
> >
> > Above applies here, too. - Sorry.
> >
> > The situation seems to be much worse in the future.
> > Bad IP (TRIPS, etc.) madness due to USA-"law".
>
> True. ATI no longer releases docs. 3dlabs no longer does. Nvidia never
> did. Intel requires an NDA now.
> If there weren't all those patents out there we might just try to
> develop a free graphics chip.
;-)
Greetings,
Dieter
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