On Mon, 22 May 2000, Robert Hoffman wrote:
> I'm waiting for the Voodoo5 personally (due within a month.) Both cards have a good reputation although I have used neither. The G-Force will work with a little chismbop; I believe Nvidia is releasing binary drivers only.
>
> John Carmack (the lead for the Quake series) wrote the Linux drivers for the Matrox G400. Since he's been fairly involved with Linux lately, I'd assume that the card will work but I don't know how much trouble it is to get it going with 3D acceleration.
>
> You might want to search the forum at www.linuxgames.com
>
Getting the G400 doing accelerated OpenGL is just a matter of installing the
Utah-GLX module for X http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/>. It's quite
straight-forward, and very fast. The Matrox cards also have what is
probably the best 2d X performance right now.
There have been various 3d card reviews on / linked from /. The general
impression they give is that the GeForce isn't exactly well-supported yet
under Linux. The same will no doubt be true of the Voodoo 5 for quite a
while after it ships.
later,
chris
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