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From: dek@lc2.ucsf.edu (David Konerding)
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Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: 26 Mar 1996 03:30:45 GMT
Organization: UCSF
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In article <4j3dl9$1jv@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, erik@fenris.campus.vt.edu wrote:
(Re: Matrox Millenium)
>: their cards and programming interface. They are afraid of reverse
>: engineering - as are many of the pc card vendors - did you ever care to

the real question is : does Xinside support Matrox & actually take advantagae
of the fast graphics or is it just using a 'normal mode'?  

The MetroLink2.x OpenGL server does not yet support hardware acceleration.
I am interested in how to acquire hardware-accelerated OpenGl on Linux.

-dave
dek@cgl.ucsf.edu