Re: Accelerated video driver for XFree86 4.1.0
Charl,
Downloading and installing the NVidia driver did the trick. Now bzflag is
much better (and even nicer than the windows version :)
Thanks for your help!
Bernt
On January 13, 2002 06:45 am, Charl P. Botha wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:11:20PM -0500, Bernt Hansen wrote:
> > Could you recommend a 3D accelerated graphics card that I should buy
> > (preferably AGP) to get decent performance in X? I have two linux
> > workstations I want to upgrade with new cards but I'm not sure what I
> > should buy.
>
> Go to www.nvidia.com, download the linux drivers for xfree86. Read the
> documentation and install. These drivers are closed-source but do the job
> at least as well as their windows counterparts (read: FAST).
>
> ATM there aren't many consumer-oriented video cards with the 3D performance
> of the current generation NVidias that have stable open source driver
> support (and hardware accelerated OpenGL) for XFree86. I do believe that
> the Radeons are slated to fill this niche, but I don't know what the
> current status is w.r.t. 3D acceleration.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Charl
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