On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:07:07AM +0800, csj wrote: > Aside from the man and readme pages in the xserver-xfree86 > package, is there any other documentation WRT the features each > driver supports. I'm looking for a video card that has native > support for both xvideo and 3D acceleration (i.e. they are > supported without having to download some 3rd-party drivers, like > the *binary-only* nvidia drivers). > > For example, according to "man sis": > > DESCRIPTION > sis is an XFree86 driver for SiS video cards. The driver > is accelerated, and provides support for 8, 16 and 24 > colordepths. XVideo, Render and other extensions are > supported as well. > > But is this 2D or 3D accleration? Can I play tuxracer and > chromium smoothly with cards using this driver? A feature grid for each driver would be nice, but I don't think any such thing exists in XFree86 documentation. Fortunately for SiS users, there is this: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsisvga.shtml -- G. Branden Robinson | You are not angry with people when Debian GNU/Linux | you laugh at them. Humor teaches branden@debian.org | them tolerance. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- W. Somerset Maugham
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