SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Video Controller Hardware

Misc:

• Also see X11 page for SW configuration info.
• CPU Review (CPU and Graphic Accelerator reviews; M$-centric)
• ELSA; (Graphics cards) (said to have helped write parts of S.U.S.E.'s parts of XFree86's X servers)
• Linux 3D "hardware accelerated 3D graphics with Linux, slanted towards use with XFree86, Mesa, and 3Dfx Voodoo."
• Palidin 3D graphics accelerator by Alliance Semiconductor Corp. (company-produced Linux drivers)
• Pinnacle/Miro DC30 Video Editing Board driver
• STB (manufacturer of video HW; Velocity 128)
• Ask Slashdot: What's the Best AGP 3D Card for Linux (and X)?
• Ask Slashdot: What Graphic Card for 2D?
• Gatos  SW for ATI video cards, incl. TV stuff.

3Dfx:

• 3Dfx sicks their lawyers on a guy and tell his employer
• 3Dfx HOWTO How to use 3Dfx graphics accelerator chip support.
• 3Dfx Interactive, Inc.  3D graphics chips. Mentioned Linux support in VooDoo3 product announcment.
• 3Dfx Cooling Info
• Dev3Dfx  "3dfx kernel module"
• Linux 3D "useful information on 3D graphics in Linux" (HW & SW)
• Programming and Glide:
  • FxEngine (3D graphics libarary; glide API)
  • Ask Slashdot: Trouble with Glide
  • The Black Art of Programming (3Dfx programming info)
  • 3Dfx Programming Secrets (info on 3Dfx)

A few standard (?) video modes:

• VGA: 640x480 @60Hz
• SVGA: 800x600 @56Hz or 1024x768 @87Hz interlaced
• IBM-8514: 1024x768 @87Hz interlaced
• xSVGA: 1024x768 @60Hz or 800x600 @72Hz
• hfSVGA: 1024x768 @70Hz
• XSGA: 1280x1024

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