From: George Koharchik (georgek++at++skopen.rsc.raytheon.com)
Date: 06/21/2001 05:55:40
Hi Gregory,
>So, here are my questions:
> 1. What do you all recommend as a relatively inexpensive (under
>$500.00) 3D graphics card to use with a Linux/Intel/Performer
>configuration?
My group has had good luck with the GeForce and Quadro 2 Pro cards.
> 2. What flavor of Linux should I install for this purpose? I am
>also new to Linux, with some unix experience, so ease of installation,
>set-up, etc. is an issue. Need to have obviously all the 3d, OGL, etc.
>drivers. RedHat, SuSe?
We're at Redhat 6.2 with some patches for agpgart support and XFree86
4.01 added in. Other posters have reported luck with RedHat 7 and 7.1...
> 3. Where is the best documentation to help me pull this off and get
>up an running with Linux/Performer?
I'm not aware of any collections of performer linux documentation in
particular. (Others will chime in to correct me on this.) You might
try:
http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/faq.html
http://www.sgi.com/software/performer/linux-faq.html
http//www.nvidia.com (for linux drivers)
http://www.evil3d.net/articles/guides/geforce3/ (and other evil3d's for hw)
http://www.linuxdoc.org/ (linux documentation project)
http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/nv95v96_2/
https://www.sgi.com/developers/devnews/2000/q1_00/d-performer_4_linux-q1_00.html
http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/nv95v96/
http://reality.sgi.com/performer/ (general performer mailing list archives)
Good Luck!
gpk
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