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Re: [PLUG] Video cards with 3D Hardware acceleration in X
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On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 13:42, Gregson Helledy wrote:
> 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.
The newest release of XFree86 (4.3) is supposed to have 3d support for
all but the very newest (R300-based) ati boards. The 7x00 series uses
the R100 chip, so that should be fine.
http://dri.sourceforge.net/dri_status.phtml
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Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
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