[aclug-L] Re: Voodoo & Linux 'OpenGL' 3D Graphics

[Anne McCadden <amccadden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I see your point, I am still a newbie with linux, and work in a M$
environment.  The software controlled devices help support the M$
monopoly.  The hardware controlled devices can be used with any OS.  

A customer, who is also a linux fan bought a new DVD drive and tried to
use it on the DVD decoder, but it wouldn't work.  Apparently it worked
great with the software that came with the drive.  He didn't tell us at
first that he was using the drive on a hardware decoder and with a
different OS.  Unfortunately the techs I work with were not very
understanding with his plight, we hadn't come across this situatation
before and he wasn't upfront and honest with what he was using the drive
for.  It is good to see a different point of view.  ttyl Anne

Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> There have always been software DVD decoders.  Hardware is ALWAYS better.
> So it's true that it's not 'necessary' to have hardware DVD decoding on the
> video card... but it's also not 'necessary' to use SCSI instead of IDE, or a
> hardware modem instead of a software modem, or a hardware RAID controller
> instead of software RAID... (you get the picture), it is still better.
> 
> -- Jonathan
> 
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 12:29:19PM -0600, Anne McCadden wrote:
> >
> > Video cards, DVD players and other computer equipment has changed a lot
> > in the last 2 years.  There are several video cards that have their own
> > fan, but most of the fans get very noisy and wear out within a year and
> > then the chip has no cooling what so ever.  Most of the good video card
> > have an elaborate convoluted heat sink that disapate the heat well and
> > some have a fan on top of the heat sink, simular to cpu setups, but on a
> > smaller scale.  It isn't necessary to have DVD hardware decoding in the
> > video any longer, DVD drives which cost about $10-20 more than a regular
> > CD-ROM, don't use the hardware decoding, but maybe by software.  Do they
> > run on linux?  I don't know, that is about the only use that I have for
> > the windoze machine any more, to play DVD movies and some of the windoze
> > games, just for play and not to be taken seriously.  The real work is
> > done by the 5 linux machines in my forever messy office.  ttyl ironrose
> >
> > David Carmichael wrote:
> > >
> > > > Actually I am not for sure. I never really got into fancy 3D
> > > > video cards much. I am not a gamer. I don't even run X on my
> > > > Debian box and RedHat works fine with the Matrox card. But I
> > > > did a quick look at google.com/linux and came across this:
> > > > http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/guides/3dfx.html it may be
> > > > of some help, I think linuxgames.com has some linux/3D info,
> > > > also check out the XFree86.org site. Its not really so much
> > > > the distro as which version of XFree86 it comes with. Full
> > > > support "right out of the box" for fancy cards is pretty
> > > > rare but with some reading and a little work you should be
> > > > able to get it working.
> > > >
> > > > I just looked at linuxgames.com and it talks on the front
> > > > page about the Voodoo cards.
> > > >
> > >
> > >  Randy -
> > >
> > > I would not call the Voodoo-2 a fancy video card... it is now close to
> > > three-to-five years old.. some of the newer video cards are what I would
> > > call fancy! They get so hot and run so fast that they need their own 
> > > cooling
> > > fans.. The ATI-Radeon<PCI> that I picked up a few weeks ago even has its 
> > > own
> > > cooling fan and the card is basically two years old! The newer versions 
> > > are
> > > two head, dual monitor, multi-plane, DVD hardware decoding, ect...
> > >
> > > The good side of most of these newer cards are they come with Linux
> > > 3D/OpenGL drivers (and support) out of the box......
> > >
> > > 'Oh' why I started to reply in the first place was.. I have been trying 
> > > for
> > > a number of hours to reach the web site 'Linuxlookup' from your link and
> > > keep getting DNS errors, did a trace route and it has been failing on me
> > > some place out west...
> > >
> > > --David
> > >
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