Michael A. Peters wrote: > I don't know of a video card with an open source driver that has the 3D > performance of NVidia, and 3D is really the only reason to run the > nvidia binary drivers anyway (I have no problems with the open source > nvidia drivers for 2D) I don't want to start a flame war here, but the r200 open-source driver is *very* fast and very high quality. The current CVS code from Mesa and DRI is even better than what we have in Xorg 6.8.2. Doom 3 runs nicely and it's quite fast. Even though glxgears isn't a comrehensive benchmark suite, I'd like to point out that I get 2800-3000 fps with a Radeon 8500 card using the latest CVS code. NVidia cards usually score less than 2000 fps. Then I switched to a Radeon 9600 card with the reverse-engineered r300 driver developed on SourceForge. This driver already renders quake, doom and many other programs correctly, altough it's not yet as fast as the r200 driver was, and there are outstanding security and stability problems that prevent merging this code back into DRI and Mesa. So at this time I'd recommend Radeon cards to Linux users because their OSS drivers are very good. We all hope one day NVidia will publish their source code or enough documentation to add 3D support to the nv driver. If not, the r300 project showed that a reverse-engineering approach isn't impossible. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
