TurboGL driver (or similar) for Linux?

[Steve Snyder]

In another thread in this forum, several people have made a good case that the upcoming TurboGL driver will significantly improve 3D frame-rates on the G400.

Will something like this (a high performance OpenGL driver) be made available for Linux/XFree86?

Thank you.

[Ant]

There is an Opensource project already underway developing a GLX driver for Linux etc. Sometime back an early alpha was already equaling the performance of the Matrox Windows OpenGL driver on the G200 so things there look very promising.

[Wombat]

yes, it's a work in progress. As far as I know, Matrox released some spec. information, but they are not donating any manpower to the effort (at least not as a corporation). It's getting better all the time, though. Also, we're expecting a big leap with XFree 4.0, hopefully due out before the end of the year.

-Wombat