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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 16:44, Sean Hamilton wrote:
> > Which card would I be best off using? I currently have an nvidia geforce256,
> > but understand nvidia is fairly hush-hush about how their hardware works. I
> > know nvidia is about to release an xfree86 module, but I'm not too
> > interested in using xf86. I hear ATI is somewhat more open about the
> > technical details of their cards.
> 
> 3d support for nVidia stuff is still 'in the works' :(

http://nvidia.netexplorer.org/news.html

Actually nVidia just announced that they would be doing the
work themselves.

-- Terry

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