On Sat Mar 04 2000 at 16:18, bear wrote:
(a big cuddly one? ... oh, never mind :)
> Hello
>
> Anybody know where I can find a driver for S3 Trio 3D/2x?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Areg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the SVGA driver of the latest stable XFree86 (3.3.6?) We had some
of these here, but we didn't find them to be very good at all, nor the
driver (see below).
The pre-4 releases (3.9 betas, iirc) would be likely to support it
better, but beware that the changes in how the v4 release works is
very different to what it has been (multiple input devices, multiple
card and monitor support, etc).
Check:
http://www.xfree86.org
We had some of these cards here for a while, but sent them back. They
are cheap and nasty, and the driver doesn't give it much credit either
(it sux). One of the commercial X server vendors classes this card
(after bench tests) as one of the slowest available. Give your
problem away to someone else to worry about :)
We ended up with a new set of 8Mb Blade 3D cards. Better cards,
better driver support, better value (they are still cheap, but you do
get what you pay for). The windows drivers for it make the win
version of quake3 look quite ok (but nothing like the voodoo3 in my
own box:) I have yet to see if the Mesa/Glide/GLX libraries/drivers
support it under linux, but if they do then it could become very
popular as a cheap 3D card for gaming and other linux 3D applications.
And btw, support for 3D cards (drivers, software libraries,
applications) for linux generally is really starting to really take
off. Way to go!
Cheers
Tony
