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X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 16, 2006 10:08 UTC (Wed) by russell (subscriber, #10458)
In reply to: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules by smulcahy
Parent article: X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

If your playing games on windows, then what do you use the 3d aceleration for under Linux? Can you get by with the nv driver?

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Posted Aug 16, 2006 10:14 UTC (Wed) by smulcahy (subscriber, #2758) [Link]

Hi,

Yes, I don't have any compelling need for 3d under Linux other than for eye candy. The last time I checked the nv driver worked ok apart from 3d. I have an ATI X700 Pro in my desktop at the moment though and that does not seem to work with the free ati or radeon drivers (apologies for my ignorance, I'm no expert on the ati drivers but I do recall trying both before downloading the binary driver - which has consistently suprised me with how well it installs on versions of debian testing).

-stephen

X.org, distributors, and proprietary modules

Posted Aug 18, 2006 3:04 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

> I have an ATI X700 Pro in my desktop at the moment though and that does not
> seem to work with the free ati or radeon drivers...

Unless that's one of the cards with no 2D core at all (and possibly even if it is), you should be able to use the VESA driver, right? Granted, it's not fast, but I do almost nothing but development, and there's virtually nothing (save only 2D scroll rate, perhaps) that would actually be significantly better with acceleration. Of course, that does assume the VESA modes suffice to drive the monitor at its/your preferred resolution. ;-)

Greg