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Subject: [9fans] Re: only old hardware supported?
Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2002 08:48:13 +0000
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Phil Roessler wrote:
> ... only outdated HW - especially only old graphics cards - are
> supported.

NVIDIA GEForce2 and GEForce3 cards work.

The basic problem is that in the "PC architecture" each graphics
chipset requires its own unique driver, and the graphics card
manufacturers aren't very interested in supporting any OS other
than a "mass market" one, e.g. Windows and sometimes Linux.

If there were a good, standard frame-buffer interface then life
would be so much simpler.  But vendors aren't much interested in
the idea.