On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 19:35, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:22:44PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > By then it will be perfect. ;) Seriously, XFree86 4.2.0 will be out > > which offers very decent support for the graphics chip. The rest of the > > As it stands, it's pretty darn fast with just the framebuffer driver - > unless I try to run something that uses OpenGL I have completely failed > to notice that it's unaccelerated.
You obviously don't move windows opaquely or scroll their contents. ;) Of course, depending on what you used before, you won't notice before using the accelerated driver. > > hardware will also hopefully be supported in the mainline kernel by > > then, and if not it will certainly be in the PPC specific kernels. > > Aside from the 3D acceleration and the modem most stuff is already > supported to at least a reasonable. I think the only things I've not > tried are PCMCIA (I'm pretty sure that's supported), IR and the video > out. > > Basically, you'd be pretty much OK if you had one now and things are > likely to get better. Absolutely. When I'll become the proud owner of such a machine at last, I won't be able to live without 3D acceleration for a long time - all those games are just no fun without. So I'm rather confident that it'll work in XFree86 4.3.0 at the latest. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
