On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:03:34AM +0000, cmetzler@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> It not only won't give you insane framerates, it won't give you
> livable framerates on a lot of stuff.
Well, remember that the card doesn't have a hardware geometry engine
for transform and lighting. Of course it's going to be slow on a lot
of cutting edge stuff.
If that's the issue, see Lee's comment about free software and
priorities that started this dicussion.
> But don't bother mentioning any of
> the above to Matrox -- they'll simply tell you that however free their
> drivers may be, OpenGL is *not supported in Linux*, and any OpenGL
> problems you have, you're on your own. That right there is a
> showstopper. I bought a Matrox card *because* of the open drivers;
> when their response to my hard lockup problems was "we don't support
> OpenGL on Linux", I ended up feeling like I'd been taken.
Heh, I think you misunderstand how free drivers work. You're caught
up in the Windows model. Here's how it works (more or less) on
Windows:
1) Hardware vendor writes a driver some API MS provides
2) You communicate with hardware vendor for support of the driver,
which may or may not work well.
Free software drivers work like this:
1) Vendor provides a sample implementation or hardware documentation
to someone or some organization
2) That individual (who usually has nothing to do with the
manufacturer!) produces a driver
3) You communicate to the hardware vendor and they say "WTF, we didn't
write that dude...", AND THEY ARE RIGHT
In the Windows case, I understand why you'd expect to get help from
the vendor.
In the free software driver case, I don't really see why you would
expect that.
-- Ross Vandegrift ross@email-addr-hidden "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37Received on Thu Dec 15 08:15:08 2005
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