From: "Gary Britt" 

The commenter I quoted wasn't talking about the regular video in Linux not
supporting Nvidia and ATI cards.  He was talking about the super duper XGL
fancy virtual desktops on cubes and super transparency stuff that is done
in the video that got George's attention.  Its that super duper XGL stuff
that he said didn't support Nvidia and ATI cards without special drivers
and a kernel recompile.

Gary

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
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> Gary Britt wrote:
>> You know reading the multitude of threads springing up suddenly about
>> doing
>> things with Linux and it makes me wonder if its ready for mass desktop
>> use,
>> even now after many years of steady improvement.  Theses messages make it
>> clear there are many secret command line incantations that one must know
>> to
>> do many things.
>>
>
> Nope, they're just the quick way when you know how.
>
> Most of the main desktop distros have every pickie for you to click your
> mouse on you could wish for, whether setting up filesharing or
> installing just about anything from a media player to a major server
> with multiple virtual images of other servers within
>
>> On the other hand I read something about Damn Small Linux the other day,
>> and
>> it sounds like it will install on my old Pentium 233 laptop with 4 gig
>> hard
>> drive.  I'm going to install it to give it a go.
>>
>
> Enjoy. The smaller the distro, the fewer the pickies.
>
>> I watched that most impressive XGL (whatever that is) Suse 10.1 linux
>> video.
>> Definitely impressive stuff.  Most of it unneeded fluff but impressive
>> none
>> the less.  Then I read somebody's comment that XGL doesn't work with
>> NVidia
>> or ATI video cards in a default install and you have to get drivers and
>> recompile the kernel etc. to make it work.  Gee, the two most popular
>> video
>> chipsets in the world and it doesn't support them out of the box in a
>> default configuration.   That kind of stuff has got to improve for Linux
>> to
>> conquer the world, even given the WGA and Vista Op Sys trojans.
>>
>
> Well that person is obviously a berk. I tend to use NVidia cards coz
> they're very well supported under linux.
>
> The screen I am typing this on is driven by a Nvidia card & no kernel
> recompilations required.
>
> Adam

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