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Anyone one knows if the ATI drivers for lunix will support the Open GL 3D?
Thinking of a suse/gunbutu/mandrake
Cheers
Most ATI cards are supported via X11, but that's mainly accelerated 2D. However, ATI also provide non open source drivers so if you know the card, check the [url= http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx ]AMD web site[/url]
Depends how old your GFX card is & how much 3D support you need.
If your card is recently new (r500, r600, r700 etc) & if performance is your #1 consideration then go for the closed source ATI driver & their stack.
If you have an older card or if you're happy going with open source solution then you're best off finding something that's tracking Dave Airlie's work. That's being pushed into Fedora (in "mesa-dri-drivers-experimental"), but i think other distro's are re-packaging it.
I'm running the bleeding edge experimental drivers from koji on f12 with a 4870 dual screen & it's working really nicely.
TBH, you're best off going searching around in the Phoronix forums for an answer.
Graham thanks for that I'll have a look.
Not too bothered by the dual screen.
However I need the Open GL. Anyway I'll have a look on the AMD and Phoroniw wbesite.
Juan, the original Phoronix article is [url= http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora_r600_3d&num=1 ]here[/url], and the forum discussion including (iirc) some mention of how to get it working on Ubumgo is linked at the top (or [url= http://www.phoronix.com/review2forums.php?view=fedora_r600_3d ]here[/url]. The article is a couple of months old now - they test it on the f12 beta. I'm sure if you go hunting round their forums you'll find a newer discussion.
If you go down the Fedora route (you never know, you might like it 😉 you can get the latest f12 driver from koji, currently [url= http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/mesa/7.6/0.18.fc12/ ]this one[/url]. You'll need some of the other packages in that directory to satisfy install dependencies, depending on what packages you have installed.
Howto on the various ATI driver options for various distros here >>
[url] http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page [/url]
Worked a charm when I used the ATI provided driver with Ubuntu 9.10