On Wed, 2005-14-12 at 17:23 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 22:47 +0100, Christian Ohm wrote: > > On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 at 18:54, Rob Fell wrote: > > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > >... It would be understandable if > > > >there was no 3D hardware available with open drivers but that's not the > > > >case. > > > > > > Given that I'm considering building a new machine, can you point to > > > references please? I wasn't aware any 3D GFX manufacturer had released > > > any significant specs/code... > > > > As far as I know the fastest 3D card with open drivers is the Radeon > > 8500/9100 (developed from specs ATI released at the time) - and I've > > heard even those are noticeably faster with the closed source drivers. > > Actually AFAIK the Radeon 9250 is the latest that has 3d accel with open > source drivers. Not to mention that people still work on the Radeon driver, whereas the Matrox stuff has been all but dead for years. Also, Matrox's new (PCI-E) releases of the Millenium series has gone proprietary as well. What a world... -DR-
