thanks for helping, so I have now a first point for lloking for my my new hardware.
As I wrote, I was using my old workstation as a test-station, but the results was very poor, so I have to look for a new hardware-equipment. The USB I will use for printers, cameras, scanner and much more - if possible --:) thanks and bye hans Am Dienstag, 13. August 2002 19:09 schrieben Sie: > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote: > > > > hi, > > am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running > > linux with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and > > sound-abilities. > > > > Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. > > > > what I should do with it : > > making animations, making pictures (combine together) and sound > > > > which software do I need for that purpose and is that software available > > on mandrake ? > > > > The reason asking this is, I have downloaded some graphicspackages, but a > > lot of them needs some requirements, which I have not found yet or does > > not run on my "testenvironment", which is a 350 MHZ AMD, mdk 8.0, about > > 50 Gigs HD, an ATI Rage Card and a USB-connection. > > > > USB does NOT run, ATI Rage have a lot of problems with 3D-Accelerating > > and have damaged 3 ATI's right now with the hardware-accelerator of mdk's > > 8.0 4.0.3-version of XFree86. > > > > Hope to get some experiences and advicements > > For my graphics work I'm using a fairly inexpensive Duron system with a > generic 32M NVidia GeForce2MX card. Performance in Blender is great. > xine and Ogle can both play animations at full screen. > > Some specs: > ECS K7S5A w/Duron 1.3G, 512M, NVidia GeForce2 MX > LinkSys PCI NIC, Onboard sound. > > If you're doing stuff in Maya or lots of really intensive renderings > you'd probably want something faster, or even a dual processor machine. > > What sort of animations are you trying to create? What do you mean by > "making pictures"? > > I use a combination of POVRay, Blender and Gimp. Some notes are > available at: > http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/ray_tracing/index.html > > I've had pretty poor results with the ATI Rage. It got better with > Mandrake 8.2, but was still not really acceptable. My Rage128 works > fine, but I've noticed occasional glitches. > > What are you using the USB for? ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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