From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 03/30/2000 18:43:53
Gil Carter wrote:
>
> At 09:56 AM 3/30/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Mar 30, 9:37am, Russell Suter wrote:
> > > I'm interested in running a GeForce or Quadro card with Performer
> > > on Linux. Unfortunately, the GLX implementation for NVidia is
> > > poor at best for GeForce and flat doesn't work for Quadro. Is there
> > > any new information on the NVidia/SGI/VA Linux driver for NVidia
> > > chips:
> > >
> > > http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2000/january/opengl.html
> > >
> > > Any comment from the SGI guys?
> >
> >It's all looking good, and Performer runs very well with it, but
> >until it's released we can't say much publically about any specifics
> >(features, release date, etc). Those who've come to the recent Linux
> >World conferences or certain SGI Linux University seminars have seen
> >it in action and came away nicely impressed.
>
> OK, so no information is coming from SGI at the moment, but there must
> surely be some media reports of what was shown at these conferences - has
> anybody published news articles from the last couple of Linuxworld expos?
>
> It seems strange that this collaboration between SGI and NVIDIA has a high
> profile but no further information since that first press release
> referenced above. Given the public interest in getting robust
> high-performance OpenGL on Linux at last, I can't believe that *nobody* has
> reported on what was shown at these exhibitions.
But is it mainstream? Star Office or Apache is more critical to most.
OpenGL in our world is big but to others it might seem niche for the
desktop, and there are other things to entertain the moderately
interested hoards, such as the Precision Insight DRI & the shouting
match over Open Source drivers.
For many I'm not sure the significance really sinks in when SGI shows
Performer town, Quake III and a host of other demos running quickly on
Linux, maybe because we're playing catch up to NT until we have shipping
systems or maybe because other cards with varying degrees of 3D support
are also arriving. Some people really get it though and they seem
impressed.
We've seen other vendors stop running their Quake3 demos bacause of the
relative performance / quality at shows when we've set up on the
adjacent booth. I'm not sure what would be added by report on the
graphics drivers, you'd probably be worse off after reading something
filtered through a journalist & editor.
Cheers,Angus.
-- For Performer+OpenGL tutorials http://www.dorbie.com/"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." --Albert Einstein
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