On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:11:09PM -0700, Brian Paul wrote: > Gregor Riepl wrote: > >For all those who don't know yet: > >ATI has released a closed source driver which should support most ATI > >based video cards. You can grab it on www.ati.com. (It's an rpm though) > > > >This is quite nice, since the open source drivers support almost no > >advanced features of the newer cards. > >Now the problem is, I just started with OpenGL programming and wanted to > >try out those cool features recent 3d chips offer: vertex & pixel shaders, > >ATI Truform, etc. > >But for some reason _none_ of these functions, not even the simplest > >OpenGL 1.3/1.4 extensions (let alone ATI stuff) seem to be implemented in > >their GL library/header files. > > You should be able to use the Mesa/DRI/XFree86 gl.h and glext.h headers. > glext.h has most of the newest extensions. >
I recommend using some library which has up-to-date header file and code to automatically set up all supported extensions.. http://glew.sf.net is one of these. It supports most of ARB-, EXT-, ATI- and NVIDIA-extensions under both Linux and Windows. Example code: #include "glew.h" glewInit(); if (glew.ARB_fragment_program) { // use pixel shaders here } if (glew.ARB_texture_env_combine) { // use texture env combiners here } and so on.. -- Pasi Kärkkäinen ^ . . Linux / - \ Choice.of.the .Next.Generation. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
