[PLUG] Video cards with 3D Hardware acceleration in X

["Gregson Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

A friend wants to add a better video card to her PII-400 machine.
I'm not sure how worthwhile it is for a machine that old, but it's what
she wants.  The machine does not have an AGP slot.  She has an
interest in linux and so ideally the card would have 3D hardware
acceleration under linux.  It should be a 32 or 64MB card.

NVidia of course offers its proprietary drivers, which I use.  These
have to be installed separately, though.  Is there such a thing as
a graphics chipset for which XFree86 offers 3D hardware acceleration
"out of the box"?  The X documentation claims "accelerated" support for
ATI cards,
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
but I guess this is 2D-only.  There is a Radeon 7500 PCI card going for
around $65, which would seem to be supported by X's "ati" driver, but
has no 3D acceleration, according to what's available from ATI:
http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RAD
EON+7500&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next

Thanks for any advice,

Greg

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