[rescue] Elite3D Question

[Kevin Loch]

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
Date: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:33 pm
Subject: Re: [rescue] Elite3D Question

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:07:37PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > ATI's cards are only marginally more expensive and do a much 
> nicer job
> > of 2D.  Their 3D isn't nearly as laggy as it used to be, either.
> 
> ATI can bite my ass due to lack of Linux support (and I'm not talking
> XFree) on their high-end cards.  
> 
> "oh, here's some drivers, but if they dont work on 
> $MAJORLINUXDISTRIBUTION, 
> we dont want to hear about it nyah nyah nyah sorry that $500 video 
> card isnt 
> supported under linux we dont support linux go away".
>
 
It's worth noting that the aforementioned nvidia cards work great
with FreeBSD.  No drivers to download and Xfree86 configured up in
seconds, and it's very very fast with X.

What did you need support for under Linux that was not X?