From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:01:04 +0000 From: Message-ID: <39d7b6be@news2.starnetinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20000925110001.18FDE19A26@mail>, <8qnit2$37p$1@supernews.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 135c78fa-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <8qnit2$37p$1@supernews.com>, Conor writes: > That is all very true and I somehow don't think P9 is envisioned as a gaming > platform anytime in the near future;however,I hardly think,going by the > hardware computability list,' reasonable' comes to mind when looking at the > supported cards. Well, it looks like maybe they started by bringing the antique 2nd Edition (1995) drivers forward, to get 3rd Edition off the ground. And 3rd Edition has only been out a few months. Maybe this situation will improve. These days, though, every graphics card for the PC is a 3D gaming card, and right now Matrox is the only company doing the right thing with documentation. You can look at XFree86, but XFree86 has a lot of problems with a lot of cards; bugs are rife, and many drivers aren't even accelerated. So it's a pretty grim situation. --Jim Howard