The ati petition (fwd)

[Gábor Farkas]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 10:04 +0100, Hamie wrote:
> Rogelio Serrano wrote:
> 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: 2004-09-03 15:21:27 +0800
> > From: Rogelio Serrano <rogelio at smsglobal.net>
> > Subject: Re: The ati petition
> >
> >
> >
> > We have to find a bigger use for 3D cards in linux. Either make more 
> > linux 3d games or another more pervasive use for 3d hardware in linux. 
> > An Xserver running on opengl is the first thing that comes to my mind.
> >
> >
> Movie rendering? Weta Graphics (LOTR, KK etc) use Linux... I'm wondering 
> if the rendering uses 3D gfx acceleration or all in software... (Not 
> knowing even what resolution they render in. Maybe the cards can't doit 
> that well yet).


imho those graphics studios render everything in software...
imho they don't even use X in those linux render farms...
but these are only my speculations...

gabor