On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 02:19:45PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > >>I don't see any evidence for this for 2D. The problems all seem to be > >>to do with 3D acceleration hardware in the past, present, and presumably > >>in the future. > > > >If true, that would still a problem. The one guy I know who's a serious > >graphics maven says that the wave of the future is 3D texture maps for > >everything, including individual font glyphs. > > As Nicholas says, all is not completely rosy in the 2D garden. There are a number of other cards, where the situation is worse. Short of running their binary driver, the Matrox parhelia is a really expensive way to run the vesa driver for example. (The mga driver doesn't support anything newer than g550 iirc). Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
