Re: OpenGL Mach64 accelerated 3d rendering

[Mauro Darida]

On Saturday 10 May 2003 11:31, jochen issing wrote:
> HI Mauro,
>
> I don't know where you heard about povray needing 3d acceleration. This
> is not true. But perhaps you think about the kpovmodeler?
mmm...I found it. I read it on the italian magazine Linux & C. (April 2003) in 
an article sporting the new kde 3.1; it was talking about kpovmodeler 
saying:"it uses 3d opengl performance so beware of freezing your machine if 
you have a graphic video chipset which does not have a valid and stable 3d 
support (i.e.ATI)": aargh! I have an ATI...
Since kpovmodeler is neither a game nor a CAD I suppose I can get away with 
it...If not, please tell me and I will apt-get --purge remove it;-)

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saluti,  Mauro

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Re: OpenGL Mach64 accelerated 3d rendering

[jochen issing]

HI Mauro,

I don't know where you heard about povray needing 3d acceleration. This
is not true. But perhaps you think about the kpovmodeler?
Anyway, it should not need too much performance for hardware
acceleration, because it only needs opengl for realtime preview.

Anyway, MACH64-chips SUPPORT 3d-acceleration, as I wrote in the message
below, but only to a minor extent and with a not-officially-released
patch. Anyway, you only need major 3d-acceleration for CAD or games, 
raytracers like povray shoud do it though.

Greetings,

jochen

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 06:34:05PM +0200, Mauro Darida wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2003 10:25, jochen issing wrote:
> > Hi Mauro,
> >
> > I think you should try driplusxv.sh by Colin Leroy. You can find it
> > here:
> > http://www.geekounet.org/powerbook/driplusxv.html
> >
> > It does everything for you, including backups. Just run and answer. But
> > don't expect too much, the ATI Rage Mobility is a MACH64-chip and
> > therefore a bit old.
> >
> As far I understand, Mach64-chip drivers do not provide 3d acceleration but 
> only 2d acceleration...I have installed pov-ray which requires opengl 3d 
> acceleration. Should I replace it with another ray-tracer ? Am I correct 
> about Mach64 DRI Linux support status?
> 
> -- 
> saluti,  Mauro
> 
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> 
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