On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Paul Gear wrote:
All of this is beside the point i was trying to make: many people
have
an existing investment in NVIDIA & ATI, and even if they wanted to swap
to something more Linux friendly, it would mean a big performance drop
and a new motherboard.
Or a new laptop. Better yet, try finding a laptop that has an acceptable
video chipset that is not nVIDIA or ATI. (Trident is not acceptable, not
even to dentists who chew gum.) I wish Matrox had a chipset for laptops,
but I have yet to see it. (And probably never will...)
Is there a reasonably fast chipset that will give an acceptable framerate
for OpenGL and has open source drivers? Other than Matrox (and some will
argue on the OpenGL part) i don't know of any.