Pointless ideology?

Posted Sep 2, 2004 22:11 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: Pointless ideology? by AJWM
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

But for Riva and TNT (not TNT2) cards, see http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers and note that only old versions of Windows, BeOS, and OS/2 are supported. (The OS/2 driver also supports Vanta and TNT2.)

Ah, so the most ancient nvidia cards are not covered by their unified driver? my mistake, I thought that was the case, but apparently the tnt 2 are the oldest supported cards. Then again, don't the riva and tnt cards work in 2D?

If I were looking for 3D support on linux, I wouldn't start with an ancient riva or tnt - tnt 2s are available online for $16, or if you want a good older 3D card with open source drivers, voodoo 3s are still available quite cheaply if you know where to look.