Comments on: Linux drivers for XGI cards http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533 Embrace your Inner Penguin Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533/comment-page-1#comment-23468 Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:53:52 +0000 #comment-23468 They didn’t strip local symbols from the modules. That’s going to make it very nice for hackers.

]]> By: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533/comment-page-1#comment-23443 Tue, 09 Mar 2004 06:03:19 +0000 #comment-23443 DRI sucks!

]]> By: zborgerd http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533/comment-page-1#comment-23431 zborgerd Sun, 07 Mar 2004 10:41:36 +0000 #comment-23431 This is interesting. I’ve actually been hoping that this company would do this (along with SIS for the Xabre lineup). It’s been disappointing that XGI’s Windows drivers have been so problematic (accoriding to reviews), but it isn’t impossible for them to improve them. Let’s sit back and see how dedicated they are at making these graphics chips. Let’s see how well they make drivers. This is a reasonable first attempt, and while it’s not perfect – it tops the work of companies like Trident. XGI’s cards may be a reasonable alternative in the future, on Windows and Linux alike. It’s good to see another option. The more companies that write drivers for Linux means that we may see better quality drivers from all involved companies.

]]> By: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533/comment-page-1#comment-23426 Sun, 07 Mar 2004 03:50:45 +0000 #comment-23426 …even on Windows.
And I don’t believe any fiddling with drivers will change this.
They simply do not know how to make anisotropic filtering and antialiasing.
I can live without antialiasing, but anisotropic filtering is a must.
It is what makes texture not apear completely blurry on a distance or with low angles to the texture.

A good review of the XGI cards is here:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/xgi-volari.html

So this will not be my next card, even if the drivers were Open Source.
A little quality of the hardware is also a must.
Maybe their next line of cards fair better.

]]> By: Xsecrets http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533/comment-page-1#comment-23420 Xsecrets Sat, 06 Mar 2004 17:29:32 +0000 #comment-23420 They could really get a ton of publicity and a huge linux fan base if they would release all their specs and work with an opensource project to make good opensource drivers. I remember when matrox released most of their documentation to an opensource project and in a mater of months they had the best accelerated 3d for linux, and it rivaled their windows performance. I would be willing to bet the open source community would go out of their way to write excellent drivers for an underdog like this, and I would bet they could rival at least ati’s performance since ati doesn’t put much effort into their linux drivers.

]]> By: http://www.linuxgames.com/archives/6533/comment-page-1#comment-23419 Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:59:41 +0000 #comment-23419 This is really great! I hope the hard work will be rewarded.

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