Video Cards et. al.

[John Wenger]

"Brian J. Conway" wrote:
> 
> > Matrox will give you better 2d, and also excellent 3d, and
> > the 3d drivers are mainstream open source.  Research Daryll
> > Strauss at Precision Insight for more info on the open
> > source 3d drivers.  His current priorities seem to be Voodoo
> > first, then Matrox.  I may see him tomorrow, and I would be
> > willing to proxy your questions to him.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's anything in particular about the Matrox 2d that
> makes it exceptional.  I've been running a Voodoo3 3000 for a while, and
> have been quite impressed with both the 2d (1024x768x32bpp desktop on my
> 15" monitor) and some very sweet 3d.  All reports from XFree 4.0 testers
> claim that the speed is much improved since upgrading, as well.  I'm not
> trying to put you on the spot for specs or anything, just wondering if
> there was a notable design I hadn't heard of.

Not that I know of.  I am just reporting some impressions. 
I attended a meeting on open source Linux 3d a few weeks
ago, and heard Strauss, the Loki guy, and some others speak.

The consensus of the vendors at the swap meets is that
Matrox is the best 2d card.  Toms Hardware said this, and
may still.  Dell put Matrox cards in their high end business
machines and may still.

SGI is working with someone, perhaps nvidia, to develop some
proprietary 3d drivers.

Toms Hardware would be my first place to go to research
video cards.

John
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