Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:40:00 +0200, MPCEE wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello Andy:
Thank you for spelling out the differences in plain language.
Certainly it does make one think on what is actually being purchased.
The spec for the Tecra M1 and what it is used for, professionally, was
cost effective as a communications tool. Slightly higher in price than
some, but it is the task that had to be dealt with, not the games
function.
I have looked at ATI�s website for the other two laptops, after
running an update for their respective drivers; both were up-to-date,
yet no help. As Sid has mentioned, manufacturers are not going to blow
their trumpets over OpenGL etc. However, we purchase from specialised
dealers and now one should be able to pose the right questions to
include OpenGL.
..if you're running out of ideas, try get 'n burn 'n boot a knoppix CD
on your 3 laptops, you want the english 4.0.2, follow "Download" link
from: http://knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
..you only need one of your 3 old laptops, and it may be supported under
GNU/Linux even if Microsoft has no OpenGL drivers. About 3 weeks ago,
I saw a post on Groklaw.net of Microsoft having adopted a strategy or
market policy on "not supporting" OpenGL.
Shame on Groklaw, I missed that, it warrants a reply from me. The
mention of MS "not supporting OpenGL" is an oxymoron, it'll be a cold
day in hell when Microsoft supports anything with "open" in the name.
..to do a CD boot, you will have push a button, usually Esc or Del or
F1 or F2 or F10 etc, YMVV. Enter the menu, find the boot disk menu,
and select the CD (or DVD, YMMV) as the boot disk.
..on CD bootup, just follow the advice given, once booted up, hit the
penguin menu button beside the "K" menu button, select "Root Shell".
..in the cli/xterm/"DOS Window", first type "glxinfo" (NOT GLXINFO!).
This command will mention "direct rendering: Yes" or "No". If "Yes",
we're done, "apt-get update ;apt-get install fgfs" will advice if it
needs anything (such as an install mirror, I believe ftp.de.debian.org
will serve you just fine, I use it to update my own install mirror).
..in the latter case "No", we will need the output of "lspci" , "dmesg"
and "lsmod" posted here, to advice further, some video cards need
clue whacks and Nvidea even closed source drivers to do OpenGL.
Checking on google I found the following for Windows
http://www.rage3d.com/articles/atidawning/
I have a Radeon Mobility 9600 in my laptop, but haven't yet got around
to looking at openGL support, I'll do that soon after having a good read
of http://www.rage3d.com/content/articles/atilinuxhowto/ and anything
else I can find.
Regards
Sid.
--
Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support
Specialist
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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