by > >> Does anyone know if the STB Velocity 128 (nVidia Riva 128) supported
> >> under Linux or where I may be able to find register level tech docs
> >> to write the driver? nVidia, the company the makes the chipset and STB
> >> both refuse by request for the information.
> I find that alarming. I thought STB was supporting the XFree
> development fully. I like my STB 128 but I wouldn't have bought
> it had I known this.
and nVidia doesn't seem to have any real interest in Linux (the Riva 128 was
after all designed for DirectX and they work closely with the DirectX team at
M$). They probably added Windows 95 OpenGL support only because they discovered
that their card would be doomed without support for GLQuake/Quake2.