From: Donald Tidrow (dtidrow++at++patriot.net)
Date: 11/21/2003 21:22:32
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:36, Brian Furtaw wrote:
> Chris do an ls -l /usr/lib/libGL* I suspect you will find that the
> OpenGL lib you are linked to Mesa's version. Meaning no hardware
> acceleration. I thought the new ATI laptop chips were called the Radeon
> Mobility 9000 series.The Rage64 is a really old card, I could be wrong.
>
> I keep hearing that there are high performance drivers for ATI cards on
> Linux but I have never seen them. In general the ATI drivers for Linux
> do stink. Although I could be eating those words because I see know that
> ATI does have Linux drivers for all their cards on the website.
>
> Brian
>
Just recently one of my coworkers got his Linux box with a Radeon 9700
working with the ATI drivers. I didn't get to play with it much but my
impression is that it is about as fast as an equivalent NVIDIA card.
Getting the driver to work seemed to be more of a chore than the NVIDIA
drivers, though. Dunno yet about overall stability, my coworker mainly
uses that box booted into Windows. I do like ATI's antialiasing better
than NVIDIA's, so I'm considering them for future use.
Don
-- "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." -- Barry Goldwater+---------------+ | Don Tidrow | | Vis-Sim geek | +---------------+
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