Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:47:02 +0100 From: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: "Adam K Kirchhoff" <adamk@voicenet.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenGL 2 supported on ATI RV370? Message-ID: <e890cae60811270247k58d6441fud4e1e0078aba2f64@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e890cae60811200325r319f4f5aj8dddddd5b766e5b3@mail.gmail.com> References: <e890cae60811190402w47d3ccb5r66621495406097f8@mail.gmail.com> <200811200559.19088.adamk@voicenet.com> <e890cae60811200325r319f4f5aj8dddddd5b766e5b3@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/11/20 Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>: > 2008/11/20 Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>: >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:02:34 +0100 >> >> "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 i386 at work. The computer has an ATI >> >>> RV370 (X300SE) >> >>> card installed. According to glxinfo, the supported OpenGL version >> >>> 1.3 using Mesa 7.0.3. >> >>> >> >>> I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver, the ports are up-to-date. DRI >> >>> seems to work fine. >> >>> >> >>> Is there a way to get OpenGL 2 support on this machine (using -CURRENT >> >>> with some patches?) >> >>> or should I install Linux on it so that I can use the commercial >> >>> FGLRX driver? >> >> The r300 Mesa driver supports many of the opengl 2.0 extensions, but >> >> not all of them. If you need complete opengl 2 support with that card, >> >> then fglrx is much more likely to fulfill your needs. >> > That would be xf86-video-ati with mesa-7.0.3 ? That only claims to support > OpenGL 1.3. I'm currently burning a Ubuntu 8.10 CD so that I can use the > FGLRX driver. The port I mentioned yesterday isn't recognized by (modern > versions of) X.org. > That didn't work out either. I hit the exact same problem with the FGLRX driver (from 2008-10-12) on Ubuntu. I've replaced the card with a cheap Nvidia EN7300TC512 using the nvidia-glx-177-dev driver which works fine in Ubuntu. Regards, Rene -- http://www.rene-ladan.nl/ GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net)
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