S3 is the only reason we can use textures in a usefull way ( S3 TC compression is their algorithm ) so I wouldn't say that they haven't been a company the last 10 years ;)
Driver Issues:
NVidia until 4X series or so. Dell still offers only 27.8 for their systems with mobile nvidia cards of GF4 go generation just to show that not all have up to date drivers.
ATI until Catalyst 4 I think, not sure
Intel until half a year or a year ago when they worked on drivers for Intel Extreme 1 / 2 which is their first real graphics chip ;)
Btw: I tested out this thing mentioned here ... GLDirect ( should be some kind of fallback from OpenGL to DirectX ). The result was pc breaking.
After installing and activating it, opengl didn't even work anymore ( got the bug with createpixmap etc when you try to create an image etc )
had to throw it out again.
( have a system with mobility radeon 9700 and fully working most actual catalyst which it bypassed )
So I can NOT recommend this thing.
so Mesa3D could be the only usable solution ...
Driver Issues:
NVidia until 4X series or so. Dell still offers only 27.8 for their systems with mobile nvidia cards of GF4 go generation just to show that not all have up to date drivers.
ATI until Catalyst 4 I think, not sure
Intel until half a year or a year ago when they worked on drivers for Intel Extreme 1 / 2 which is their first real graphics chip ;)
Btw: I tested out this thing mentioned here ... GLDirect ( should be some kind of fallback from OpenGL to DirectX ). The result was pc breaking.
After installing and activating it, opengl didn't even work anymore ( got the bug with createpixmap etc when you try to create an image etc )
had to throw it out again.
( have a system with mobility radeon 9700 and fully working most actual catalyst which it bypassed )
So I can NOT recommend this thing.
so Mesa3D could be the only usable solution ...