Re: Banshee

[Eric <ej@goomba.dhs.org>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:37:47PM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> Banshee cards are not currently supported.  A coworker of mine sold his and
> bought a TNT.  Cheaper and in all ways a better card.
> 
> It can be forced to work by using the frame buffer console and Xframebuffer
> BUT it is non acclerated and is a waste of card.

I have to disagree with this.  Check out
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html  There is an Xserver
being developed for the banshee.  Also, full 3d rendering support is
available through the glide drivers.  3dfx supplies the person who
works on the linux glide port (and the xserver) with not only full
technical details, but access to their actual engineers.  As far as I
know, NVidia has not shown anything in the way of linux support.
Granted, the TNT2 is going to be a better card than the
banshee/voodoo3, but what good is it if they have no linux support?

eric.

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