Re: OT: Accelerated 3D GFX cards with Free drivers (was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: The best distro for music creation)

From: Rob Fell <rob@email-addr-hidden-egg.org>
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 21:30:14 EET

Lee Revell wrote:
> Intel and VIA have 3D chipsets with open drivers. You're not going to
> get insanely high frame rates but that's the price of freedom ;-)

Don't these chipsets use 'host' memory rather than dedicated video
memory? If so, I'm not sure I want all that bandwidth stolen from the
CPU :(

> There's also this project:
>
> http://www.opengraphics.org

I've read about this. Interesting idea, but I still have doubts that
it'll produce ASIC/cards that will be affordable - though I'd love to be
proved wrong.

cheers
Rob
Received on Thu Dec 15 00:15:13 2005

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