[Nottingham] Connect 3D Radeon 7000 AGP and Five Button Mouse info

[Rob Andrews]

On 27-Oct-2005 23:11.00 (BST), Michael Simms wrote:
 > Example:
 > nvidia open source drivers on a new 3d game: 1 frame per 2 or 3 seconds
 > nvidia closed drivers on the same game: 120 FPS

 > Really, its not even comparable in any meaningful way.

Well, this example is not particularly great since there are no opensource
DRI implementations for nvidia cards. At all. There was the utah-glx project
but it never made it to the XFree86 4 (and hence Xorg) era. Thus any
opensource nvidia drivers are going to be software-rendered 3D only.

The ATI cards have relatively good opensource DRI implementations in
comparison, and the next Xorg release will complete the 3D support for
the entire range of cards.

That said, they will lack *some* features, notably S3TC.