Alright… so I’m getting new 3D hardware, and upgrading from my poor tired
crapped out Voodoo Graphics. Now, I’m positive that a Voodoo 3 is the way to
go… but my question is, do the Linux 3D drivers (Glide/whatever) use AGP,
or does no such beast exist… a position which would mean that I’d just be
better off getting a PCI Voodoo3 rather than the more expensive AGP ones?
I hate shopping for hardware… I always end up confused. I deal in
software, damnit!
Nicholas-----------------------------------
Nicholas Vining "So what’re we going to do tonight, Brain?"
vining at pacificcoast.net “The same thing we do every night, Pinky,
icq: 20872003 world domination through Linux.”
Well, I have a Voodoo Banshee AGP and it works fine, so it should for you
too… I was told that linux currently treats a AGP device exactly like a
pci device, so it should work with everything…On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Nicholas Vining wrote:
Alright… so I’m getting new 3D hardware, and upgrading from my poor tired
crapped out Voodoo Graphics. Now, I’m positive that a Voodoo 3 is the way to
go… but my question is, do the Linux 3D drivers (Glide/whatever) use AGP,
or does no such beast exist… a position which would mean that I’d just be
better off getting a PCI Voodoo3 rather than the more expensive AGP ones?
I hate shopping for hardware… I always end up confused. I deal in
software, damnit!
Nicholas
Nicholas Vining "So what’re we going to do tonight, Brain?"
vining at pacificcoast.net “The same thing we do every night, Pinky,
icq: 20872003 world domination through Linux.”
Just saw an ad for Voodoo 5 though. Anyone know what happened to four?
Netscape did the same thing though 4(Old) - > 6(New).
Curious ain’t it!!!?
DaveOn Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Ryan Wahle wrote:
Well, I have a Voodoo Banshee AGP and it works fine, so it should for you
too… I was told that linux currently treats a AGP device exactly like a
pci device, so it should work with everything…
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Nicholas Vining wrote:
Alright… so I’m getting new 3D hardware, and upgrading from my poor tired
crapped out Voodoo Graphics. Now, I’m positive that a Voodoo 3 is the way to
go… but my question is, do the Linux 3D drivers (Glide/whatever) use AGP,
or does no such beast exist… a position which would mean that I’d just be
better off getting a PCI Voodoo3 rather than the more expensive AGP ones?
I hate shopping for hardware… I always end up confused. I deal in
software, damnit!
Nicholas
Nicholas Vining "So what’re we going to do tonight, Brain?"
vining at pacificcoast.net “The same thing we do every night, Pinky,
icq: 20872003 world domination through Linux.”
Dave wrote:
Just saw an ad for Voodoo 5 though. Anyone know what happened to four?
Netscape did the same thing though 4(Old) - > 6(New).
I heard that the Voodoo 4 was going to come out and the Voodoo 5 was
going to be a card with two Voodoo 4 chips, sorta like you can connect
two Voodoo 2’s except on one card. Don’t know how truthful that is
though.
I don’t even remember where I heard it. I think it was on a ZDTV show,
“The ScreenSavers” or "Call for Help "I think.
I always thought that the VooDoo 4 would be like a less powerful
version of the 5, like the Banshees and VooDoo 3s.
Wesley Poole
AKA Phoenix Kokido
Tired of hiding behind a on-line only identity…
members.xoom.com/kokido
@Wes_Poole
Dave wrote:
Just saw an ad for Voodoo 5 though. Anyone know what happened to four?
Netscape did the same thing though 4(Old) - > 6(New).
Curious ain’t it!!!?
Dave
Well, I have a Voodoo Banshee AGP and it works fine, so it should for you
too… I was told that linux currently treats a AGP device exactly like a
pci device, so it should work with everything…
Alright… so I’m getting new 3D hardware, and upgrading from my poor
tired
crapped out Voodoo Graphics. Now, I’m positive that a Voodoo 3 is the
way to
go… but my question is, do the Linux 3D drivers (Glide/whatever) use
AGP,
or does no such beast exist… a position which would mean that I’d
just be
better off getting a PCI Voodoo3 rather than the more expensive AGP
ones?> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Ryan Wahle wrote:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Nicholas Vining wrote:
I hate shopping for hardware… I always end up confused. I deal in
software, damnit!
Nicholas
Nicholas Vining "So what’re we going to do tonight, Brain?"
vining at pacificcoast.net “The same thing we do every night, Pinky,
icq: 20872003 world domination through Linux.”
My information has it that the voodoo 4,5… will all pretty much use
the same rendering chip, with the voodoo 5 having more and more memory.
Myself I’m quite ancy about putting a video card in my machine that
requires it’s own external 100watt power supply. Nor does it have T&L
like the rumored ati aurora and g800.
— Phoenix Kokido wrote:> I always thought that the VooDoo 4 would be like a less powerful
version of the 5, like the Banshees and VooDoo 3s.
Wesley Poole
AKA Phoenix Kokido
Tired of hiding behind a on-line only identity…
members.xoom.com/kokido
kokido at postmark.net
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Jason Platt wrote:
My information has it that the voodoo 4,5… will all pretty much use
the same rendering chip, with the voodoo 5 having more and more memory.
Myself I’m quite ancy about putting a video card in my machine that
requires it’s own external 100watt power supply.
I’m a big fan of voodoo cards, but I have to agree here, I’ve already
got
enough electical stuff plugged in without adding another. Not to mention
I don’t think I have place to plug it in. With that said, I did read a
pre-review of the V5-5500, and there are features like hardware
anti-aliasing and motionblur. Apparently they will work with any openGL
application, you just need to turn the driver features on. The review
(by a game magazine) said that the performance hit for these was “well
worth it” so I have to guess it looks really increadible. But I guess
we’ll find out in a few weeks.
I know that I’m probably going to get one and put it into my Windows
box,
then when WINE works properly with XFree 4 I’ll swap it with the V3-3K
in
my Linux box. I seem to recall hearing about some problems with SDL
and
XFree 4, what are they?
Nor does it have T&L
like the rumored ati aurora and g800.
T&L?
-fjr--
Frank J. Ramsay
@Frank_Ramsay
— Frank Ramsay wrote:
Jason Platt wrote:
My information has it that the voodoo 4,5… will all pretty much
use
the same rendering chip, with the voodoo 5 having more and more
memory.
Myself I’m quite ancy about putting a video card in my machine that
requires it’s own external 100watt power supply.
I’m a big fan of voodoo cards, but I have to agree here, I’ve already
got
enough electical stuff plugged in without adding another. Not to
mention
I don’t think I have place to plug it in. With that said, I did read
a
pre-review of the V5-5500, and there are features like hardware
anti-aliasing and motionblur. Apparently they will work with any
openGL
application, you just need to turn the driver features on. The
review
(by a game magazine) said that the performance hit for these was
"well
worth it" so I have to guess it looks really increadible. But I
guess
we’ll find out in a few weeks.
John Carmack made a comment about FSAA in one of his recent .plan
files, mentioned that at reasonable resolutions with a reasonbly fast
game that there was no real benifit to it (or something like that).
I know that I’m probably going to get one and put it into my Windows
box,
then when WINE works properly with XFree 4 I’ll swap it with the
V3-3K
in
my Linux box. I seem to recall hearing about some problems with SDL
and
XFree 4, what are they?
I don’t know.
Nor does it have T&L
like the rumored ati aurora and g800.
T&L?
Transform and Lighting, which is very math intensive. Most of the
people who have done testing on the nVidia GeForce 32 meg ddr have
compared it’s processing ability (with specific reference to T&L) to
that of a PIII-700.>
-fjr
–
Frank J. Ramsay
fjr at marsdome.penguinpowered.com
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