Roberto Speranza wrote:
>
> The poor performance is probably due to the fact that the linux version
> relies on Mesa which, as far as I know, is not hardware acceleerated. At
> SIGGRAPH 99, SGI was talking about an accelerated version of OpenGL they
> were developing for Linux but I don't know if it has been released yet.
The Mesa libs are being included as standard distribution with XFree 4.0
- along with SGI's GLX code and a number of other improvements. As part
of this, a number of hardware accelarated drivers are being written.
>From memory, there is G200/400, TNT2, Voodoo3+ and maybe the Permedia 2.
There is a snapshot of the currently available "beta" release available
at the usual mirrors that contain much of this code. IIRC, the version
is 3.9.16. so check it out.
If you need fast linux OpenGL performance today then one of the
commercial X servers like AccelaratedX or MetroX will get you there.
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