Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-11 Thread Nils Kassube
* Jens Benecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-05-10 20:30]: > No, they cannot, because it is not theirs to choose. They purchased code > from other companies and signed an NDA. End of story. They purchased code from other companies for their driver software, okay. How does this prevent them from pro

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-10 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Jens Benecke wrote: > Windows kernel API to Linux. That means just about every performance boost > But that also means that the Linux drivers need a proprietary Kernel > module, which is so riddled with patents, NDAs and sub-contracts (which the [ and also that now a video dr

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-09 Thread George Farris
As I understand it this is basically horse hockey. They could choose to release the correct programming information about the hardware. Problem solved. > > In order to provide good XFree drivers FAST, they basically ported their > Windows kernel API to Linux. That means just about every perform

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-09 Thread Rogerio Brito
On May 09 2001, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > Grr.. You could if nVidia actually continued to release their > driver sources like they said they would. I'll never buy another NV > card until they have released GOOD driver docs for at least 2 > consecutive generations of cards. Some mon

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-09 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
> You can only do antialiasing if you do NOT use the NVIDIA drivers (the > commercial ones). They cannot do it yet. Grr.. You could if nVidia actually continued to release their driver sources like they said they would. I'll never buy another NV card until they have released GOOD driver docs for

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-07 Thread Andrej Marjan
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: > > My card is OK (NVIDIA TNT2 M64 - it does the antialiasing under > > Mandrake) > > You can only do antialiasing if you do NOT use the NVIDIA drivers (the > commercial ones). They cannot do it yet. Yes they can. At least version 0.9.

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread mike polniak
Viktor Lakics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > I know this was discussed in this list already, I did my homework, > read the archives, but I am still confused. Here is my problem: > > I have stock potato 2.2.r3 with XFree 3.3.6. and Ivan's KDE for > potato. I want to get antialised font

Re: AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 04:15:24PM +0200, Jens Benecke wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: AA with potato (strictly) > Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-kde@lists.debian.org > From: Jens Benecke <[EMAIL PROTECTE

AA with potato (strictly)

2001-05-06 Thread Viktor Lakics
Hi All, I know this was discussed in this list already, I did my homework, read the archives, but I am still confused. Here is my problem: I have stock potato 2.2.r3 with XFree 3.3.6. and Ivan's KDE for potato. I want to get antialised fonts work n KDE with as less unstable packages as it is poss