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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