[ILUG] This again!

[David Murphy]

> 1. Creative Labs 16MB Graphics Blaster Riva TNT AGP Graphics Card

> This looked like a great card until I saw the line - "Finally, with
> Creative's own proprietary, fully accelerated drivers for Windows
> 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT, along with support for Microsoft's
> DirectX architecture and OpenGL". This (for obvious reasons) is not
> a hell a lot of good to me.

Those reasons aren't exactly obvious to me - I'd be very surprised to
find a consumer graphics card for a PC that didn't have windows
drivers, and extraordinarily surprised to find windows drivers that
came with source code!

> But I thought Kate said before that this was nearly supported and
> was waiting for XFree 4.0 (true?) to come out for TNT to be
> supported.

There'll be better support in v4, but XFree86 does currently have
support for the TNT cards - see http://www.xfree86.org

> So - is Riva TNT a standard(?) or an implementation by creative labs
> and what does TNT mean in comparison to Voodoo?

The TNT chips are an nVidia design, TNT cards have been implemented
by Creative, Diamond, STB, and others.

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