After doing a lot of looking you can do full-acceleration for ATI cards, but you don't get any support for fancy features (pixel/vertex shaders) under linux. (There is nvidia support for such things, but no software I utilizing it so far i know of)
You can't do video out on most ATI cards, you can on Nvidia and its fairly easy. But the nvidia drivers are not free! (as in open-source)
Ben
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Lavallée" odradek@videotron.ca To: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Video cards
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:39:19PM +0000, tdunstan@ihug.com.au wrote:
Hi people i am just about to get a new video card (and system) and i was wondering if there was a choice video card for gem style graphics and pd. i'm using linux,
I checked a couple of months ago, and sadly I came to the conclusion that there no more choice for 3D on Linux; not a single company offers free (as in speech) drivers for their recent cards, and nVidia drivers are the best ones. But I might be wrong, and I'd like to know about the alternatives. -- Marc
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