From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:22:40 +0000 From: MoJoJoJo Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Are nvidia-cards working with plan9? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c8d7556-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Looks like nVidia cards are supported by XFree with hardware acceleration in versions 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 -- see: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/Status21.html#21 The latest plan9 hardware support document is at: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/pchardware.html Is the ultimate goal of this OS to be just a developer test platform? I can't help but wonder where a lot of other OSes would have been right now if they had not turned their noses up at 'gaming hardware'. It's a good thing that --TNT2 Ultra Owner On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:14:14 GMT, nigel@9fs.org wrote: >In general, the more 3D oriented, and state-of-the-art, >the less likely the card is to be supported. This is partially >a function of the proprietary nature of 'gamers' cards, >and partially the unlikelihood that researchers in Plan 9 >have found the need to support such cards. > >If you read the hardware compatibility specs, you will >see what is supported in the current release. The usual >line is 'ATi mach64 based cards are OK'. Of course, if >you see it mentioned in /lib/vgadb then this is encouraging. > >Support is improving, though. If you check the archives, >you will see that a Voodoo 3 and S3 Savage drivers have been >done, but not yet released. Matrox G200/G400 may not be far away. > >On the flip side, no Ati 128 bit cards are supported. > >Another important rule of thumb is 'does XFree86 support >it'. This is an indication as to whether the technical >documentation needed to write a driver is available. >At one time certainly, Nvidia were difficult.