Jim DeLisle wrote:
 >>>> That's not a solution.  If you need to do 3D work on an Intel/AMD
 >>>> system right now, nVidia is about the only game in town for the free
 >>>> UNIX systems.
 >> What about them?  Last time I used either, the drivers were pretty slow,
 >> and there was no 3D acceleration.
 > Wouldn't it be wonderful if every user of any free Unix-like system
 > could simply install their OS on any sort of hardware and have every
 > piece of hardware whir and whiz to it's perfect and harmonious acme?

This discussion reminded me of the UDI, Uniform Driver Interface, which
should solve exactly this kind of problems.

I digged the site ( http://www.projectudi.org/ ) and discoveder that
regardless the project looks quite dead, they finally reached 1.0 version
and released a reference implementation under BSD license (see
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/06/1935247 ) which, if I read it
correctly, is up and working for linux.

I hope I said something interesting :)
Greetings,
	TLD