Ive gotten a ATI Mobil Raedon x600 to load dri correctly under SUSE Linux 9.3 and 10.
On 10/5/05, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 18:35 -0700, Bryce Redd wrote: > > Hey, > > > > Straight up: is there anyone out there who actually uses linux and 3d > > acceleration (aside for xscreensaver =p). > > Well I have an nvidia card with their accelerated driver and I use it to > run the X-Plane flight simulator at full screen (very smooth). Couldn't > do that without acceleration. Flightgear (the open source flight > simulator) works pretty well too. I've also managed to get 3dMark2000 > (demo and benchmarking program) running under wine. I've heard that > many 3d games are now working in normal wine. The 3d future is pretty > bright on linux. > > On a random tangent, does anyone know if the nvidia driver for linux > supports stereoscopic modes (I'd need a better card I know)? I've been > playing X-plane on Windows with shutter glasses and having real, honest- > to-goodness 3-d and depth is really quite striking. You can reach out > and touch things almost. :) > > > I've been at installing DRI > > and my ATI catalyst drivers for a little over a month (many... > > manymany hours), and I've decided to raise the white flag and ask for > > help. > > Well I can't speak about ATI cards, but I've heard experiences with ATI > are mixed. > > > > > I know linux has WINE, and support for popular games, which means > > someone out there has succeeded in getting their Direct Rendering to > > Yes. > > Nvidia's equivalent of DRI, yes. > > > > > If there's any experts (or someone who's got DRI installed properly) > > then I'd be most grateful for any help. BTW, if you have direct > > rendering enabled properly glxgears should give you a score well over > > 1000. > > Hmm. 1000, eh. Not quite. My nvidia card gets me about 60. I think > that's about what the program limits itself to. I know at 1280x1024 X- > plane can do about 50 FPS, but it's also limited by the program to > reserve CPU time for the fluid dynamics and Newtonian physics stuff that > it has to calculate in real time. Actually if I run gears with -delay > 0, I get 500 in a window, 200 full screen. Clearly I have an inferior > card. But boy does it run opengl screensavers fast! And crash large > aircraft. > > Michael > > > > > > Thanks, Bryce. > > > > -------------------- > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- _\ | /_ (@ @) -----oOOo-(_)-oOOo----- ~ Mark Gardner ~ -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
