[Flightgear-devel] Re: Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin
Richard Harke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: freeglut is an alternative to glut, not to OpenGL mesa is an alternative to OpenGL but it does not have the performance required for FG Normally you need to get 3D accelerated drivers from the vendor of your video card, Nvidia or ATI, for example. this is wrong. i use mesa and the open source radeon 3d drivers (out of mesa) together with xorg and drm from cvs and i can run flightgear on my laptop (an ibm thinkpad t40 with an ati firegl 9000 card) without any problems. the open source drivers are actually faster than the ati ones because i can run them at 16bpp (the ati drivers run only at 24bpp). oh, and i can suspend my laptop which is impossible with the ati drivers. so please don't spread such nonsense. first of all, mesa as an opengl implementation is completely different from mesa providing 3d acceleration. second, for supported cards (which are quite a lot of them, with the exception of nvidia cards) the open source 3d drivers are very good. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin
On Sun October 2 2005 10:39, Alex Romosan wrote: Richard Harke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: freeglut is an alternative to glut, not to OpenGL mesa is an alternative to OpenGL but it does not have the performance required for FG Normally you need to get 3D accelerated drivers from the vendor of your video card, Nvidia or ATI, for example. this is wrong. i use mesa and the open source radeon 3d drivers (out of mesa) together with xorg and drm from cvs and i can run flightgear on my laptop (an ibm thinkpad t40 with an ati firegl 9000 card) without any problems. the open source drivers are actually faster than the ati ones because i can run them at 16bpp (the ati drivers run only at 24bpp). oh, and i can suspend my laptop which is impossible with the ati drivers. so please don't spread such nonsense. first of all, mesa as an opengl implementation is completely different from mesa providing 3d acceleration. second, for supported cards (which are quite a lot of them, with the exception of nvidia cards) the open source 3d drivers are very good. --alex-- I guess I should have stopped after saying that freeglut does not replace OpenGL. I didn't realize that there was such an improved 3D mesa. I run an Nvidia card and have had reason to look into it. Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
