Subject: Re: Nvidia 3D cards
From: designer seven (designer_7@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 09 1999 - 20:05:45 PDT
Hmmm.. I know that the latest XFree86 on intel has
support for the TNT... I friend of mine at work just
got it to work. It's suppose to be experimental
support, but seems to work fine for him. I wonder if
this can be ported to Alpha easily?
D.
--- Peter Petrakis <ppetrakis@alphalinux.org> wrote:
> There are no drivers for TNT for Alpha/NT. The main
> reason being
> companies like Nvidia write these drivers in
> assembly code so it's not
> portable and a bitch to port. Now that the source
> code for the Linux X
> server has been released some one who's knowledgable
> in both windows and
> *nix could write the drivers using the Xserver as a
> rough template but
> I don't see anyone even mentioning it on the AlphaNT
> list. I have a
> question. Is anyone working on the TNT driver for
> Alphalinux? Diamond
> does make a PCI version of the V550 and so do a few
> others.
>
> Peter
>
> "Leslie F. Donaldson" wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I was wondering if anyone has found a TNT card
> with NT/Alpha support?
> > Leslie Donaldson
>
>
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