ati? I can barely run V7 on my (ageing) Radeon - V6 is more stable, but I don't know why. Realsoft recommend nvidea, and I'll be going that way for my next machine. For anyone going to Linux, I urge you not to be the first to try a new graphics card.
Can recommend Ubuntu, though. Go for an LTS release (long term support I think it means) and don't be tempted to update too often. I updated a year ago and I still haven't got my Wacom working properly again. Good luck. George On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Ville Tirronen < [email protected]> wrote: > Luckily I have Ati 4870 HD. Now Ati catalyst 9.3 drivers support direct > rendering so I can use Compiz and 3d effects with my desktop. > Real timesaver when making big projects. I have 4 desktops and different > RS-window in them. There are still some errors with linux version. > GTK windows tend to crash sometimes, but all in all newer going back to > Windows. Noticed that if I have a larger project than I have memory, > I can just make a new swap partition and size that for my project. Now I > have over 10gigs of swap and physical memory 8 gigs. Also I have another > machine in my network which is a slave render node. Its nice when you > are making several projects at the same time. > > And for installation problems. I have installed it on Ubuntu and > Opensuse. Some things like Openmotif and installation location needed > some tuning. > But I think you'll get hang off it quite easily. Ubuntu is an really > good option, but wait till the new 9.04 version comes out. > > Ville > > > Mark wrote: > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I know that this is not a linux list, but I was just rendering with > >> Opensuse 11.1 (64bit) box and it was allmost double speed compared to > >> Windows XP (32bit). > >> > >> Scene I rendered in linux took 3:26 minutes and with Windows XP it > >> took 6:05 minutes. Nicest thing with linux is that I can make > >> different swap partitions so I can > >> make infinited space for my rendering scene. > >> > > > > > > Man that does it, I'm having a go at 64bit Linux and RS 64bit! Why not > > take advantage of the hardware. I think I'll try Ubuntu. > > > > -Mark H > > > > > >
