Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-20 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 18 Jan 99 22:30:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>They recently helped a Xfree driver come into existance, so the tide is >>turning. >> > >Yes, but as we all know, it's not really open source, since the code >is 'processed' to be unreadable. The TNT driver won't stay in future >versions of Xf

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Elenius
>NVIDIA backed down. Unobfuscated source is in XFree86 3.3.3.1. > >Excerpt from the XFree86 upstream changelog: >1278. Add the newly rewritten Riva code from NVIDIA. Fixes some bugs with > multiple server instances running and other problems with the previous > code. The NV1 code is unc

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 11:30:37PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: > > > >They recently helped a Xfree driver come into existance, so the tide is > >turning. > > > > Yes, but as we all know, it's not really open source, since the code > is 'processed' to be unreadable. The TNT driver won't stay in f

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-19 Thread Daniel Elenius
> >They recently helped a Xfree driver come into existance, so the tide is >turning. > Yes, but as we all know, it's not really open source, since the code is 'processed' to be unreadable. The TNT driver won't stay in future versions of Xfree unless they release real open source code.

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Shaleh
On 18-Jan-99 Dale E. Martin wrote: > Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> It's not possible at this time. The only support for hardware 3D >> acceleration in Linux is for Voodoo cards. > > I sent Nvidia email telling them I would not buy a TNT card because they > won't supply programming

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Dale E. Martin
Adam Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's not possible at this time. The only support for hardware 3D > acceleration in Linux is for Voodoo cards. I sent Nvidia email telling them I would not buy a TNT card because they won't supply programming info to Open Source developers. I suggest that

Re: Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 01:42:29PM -0600, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. > OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me > what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? > Any

Quake2 & nVidia TNT

1999-01-18 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I am trying to get Quake2 to run under linux in an accelerated mode (i.e. OpenGL). Has anyone sucessfully accomplished this? Could you tell me what the correct command line syntax is to start the game in that mode? Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated! -Ian _