Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:59:18 -0500 From: Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> To: "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenGL 2 supported on ATI RV370? Message-ID: <200811200559.19088.adamk@voicenet.com> In-Reply-To: <e890cae60811190402w47d3ccb5r66621495406097f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <e890cae60811190402w47d3ccb5r66621495406097f8@mail.gmail.com>
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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? > > Thanks, > Rene 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. Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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