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Re: FW: Survey: What input device do you use?

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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 03:21:20 +0200

Doug Sutherland wrote:
> 
> Eugene wrote:
> 
> > While none of this is ready for the primetime yet, why don't you
> > get an nVidia OpenGL card (possibly dual-headed, a FreeD
> > and write a real 3d GUI?
> 
> Speaking of 3D, I installed Mesa (OpenGL clone) and tried out the Java3D
> demo programs on my PCM-5822. It takes a long time for the apps to start

Apropos, in case anybody missed it, here's a great resource for marrying
GPS with OpenGL:

	http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2000/12/08/gps_palm.html

> up on this 200Mhz processor, but they look really cool, and perform well
> once they are running. One of the very nice features in Java is simple

What does your system use for 3d acceleration? There are very large
performance differences between different chipsets, and XFree86 drivers
for them. nVidia, buggy that it is, is usually well performing and well
supported. Plus, there are mobile versions of their GeForce 2 chipsets
available: 

	http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,34798,00.asp

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