Opinion: NVIDIA drivers are a BAD Thing [tm]
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Thu May 20 10:53:19 UTC 2004
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 07:41 5/19/2004, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 17:44 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > So, who in the video card business supports linux/opensource? Go
> > > ahead and post a list, I'll wait. I think I might have 10 more years
> > > if I'm lucky.
> >
> >I've seen native 3D with some i845 boxes (or was it 815)?
>
> Not a criticism in any way, just curious: how does one determine whether 3D
> capability is active?
glxinfo is good place to start... if tuxracer doesn't run like crap that's
allways a good sign as well.
on my laptop (radeon mobility m7)
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20020611 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 4.0.4
> Cheers,
>
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