From: Leimy <dleimbac@falcon.lhup.edu>
  To  : Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:25:54 -0400 (EDT)

Re: driver info.

I almost forgot to mention I only have PCI and ISA ports no AGP.  I am one
of those continuous upgraders who didn't think far enough ahead on last
years motherboard purchase.

dave

 > Leimy wrote:
> > 
> > Well I have almost gone nuts looking for documentation for the Trident
> > Chipset.  None of what I have found is readable to me so  I suppose I will
> > have to throw in the towel.  I really want to do something substantial
> > this summer as far as linux programming goes.  I am going to a computer
> > show this weekend and will probably pick up a new graphics card there.  I
> > need to know though of the two which I should get.  RIVA TNT or 3DFX?
> > 
> > So far 3dFX controls the Windows market.  But I see theTNT cards are
> > holding their own.
> > 
> > Documentation-wise TNT seems to be the way to go.
> > 
> > Any suggestions especially relating to compatibility with this project
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Well TNT is already supported by KGIcon to some extent, while 3DFX
> doesn't seem likely to be supported by any free project within
> the forseeable future. 3DFX is even sueing Creative for implementing
> the Glide API for non 3DFX hardware...
> (Wonder if they will sue me for implementing part of the Glide API
> for no hardware ;)
> 
> The Voodoo II and Voodoo Graphics has the advantage (if you already
> have a good 2D card) that you can keep your normal 2D card, hook up
> an extra monitor, and run normal LibGGI apps and XGGI on the 3DFX card.
> But with Voodoo 3 I see no advantage over a TNT card, especially
> as Voodoo 3 AFAIK isn't as good as the TNT (it doesn't support AGP
> texturing for example, so when textures are getting larger a Voodoo 3
> will start crawling)
> 
> //Marcus
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