Its true, 3dfx's linux support for all of their products is excellent. They
recently open sourced Glide! I have been very very pleased with my 3dfx
purchases both voodoo2 and voodoo5. The image quality made by their products
is exceptional in both windows and linux. I cannot recommend their products
highly enough.
Abe
>===== Original Message From Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia:
>
>> What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read
>> (www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster.
>
>Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia chip is going to
>see the inside of a box I build. Linux support for both the Voodoo series
>and for SB-Live! is phenominal. The reason for this is the open source
>drivers. The original driver from Creative sucked. Might as well have not
>had sound. Within a month of it being open sourced, quality was up to the
>standards people expected of the card.
>
>A binary only driver locks you into a particular kernel version as well.
>OSS gets around this by recompiling everything everytime there is a new
>kernel release (2.2 series). But look at the poor souls who had Aureal
>sound cards and depended on binary only drivers for them when Aureal went
>out of business. I'm not suggesting that NVidia is in danger of bankrupcy.
>I am suggesting that you're going to be screwed if they decide to stop
>updating the drivers.
>
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