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| Ignoramus4834... |
 Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 7:55 pm |
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I tried to run Flightgear, which was incredibly, painfully slow.
Flightgear FAQ says that this is due to my hardware acceleration not
activated:
`` 5.5 - Why is FlightGear so slow?
FlightGear supports hardware acceleration, but it seems not to be
activated. Make sure you have OpenGL libraries installed and
configured properly and make sure you have the latest drivers for your
video card.''
The obvious question is how can I enable hardware acceleration.
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce
7300 LE] (rev a1)
If I cannot get hardware acceleration to work, I am open to looking
for a different card that supports it.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
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| Ignoramus4834... |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 8:04 pm |
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I may have found the answer, I need to install nvidia-glx-... such as nvidia-glx-180.
I will report whether it it stable.
i
On 2009-05-20, Ignoramus4834 <ignoramus4834 at (no spam) NOSPAM.4834.invalid> wrote:
Quote: I tried to run Flightgear, which was incredibly, painfully slow.
Flightgear FAQ says that this is due to my hardware acceleration not
activated:
`` 5.5 - Why is FlightGear so slow?
FlightGear supports hardware acceleration, but it seems not to be
activated. Make sure you have OpenGL libraries installed and
configured properly and make sure you have the latest drivers for your
video card.''
The obvious question is how can I enable hardware acceleration.
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce
7300 LE] (rev a1)
If I cannot get hardware acceleration to work, I am open to looking
for a different card that supports it.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
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| Dan C... |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 8:20 pm |
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On Tue, 19 May 2009 20:55:08 -0500, Ignoramus4834 wrote:
Quote: I tried to run Flightgear, which was incredibly, painfully slow.
Flightgear FAQ says that this is due to my hardware acceleration not
activated:
`` 5.5 - Why is FlightGear so slow?
FlightGear supports hardware acceleration, but it seems not to be
activated. Make sure you have OpenGL libraries installed and configured
properly and make sure you have the latest drivers for your video
card.''
The obvious question is how can I enable hardware acceleration.
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300
LE] (rev a1)
If I cannot get hardware acceleration to work, I am open to looking for
a different card that supports it.
Any ideas will be appreciated.
i
You need to install the Nvidia driver, you ignoramus.
Duh.
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| Ignoramus4834... |
| Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 9:52 pm |
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One more data point. I wanted to investigate the gaming issues a
little further.
I tried one more game called Alien Arena.
That one locked up my screen in the same way as Flightgear.
My current hypothesis is that the NVidia proprietary driver has some
bugs and should take the blame, instead of games.
Assuming for a minute that it is true, I would like to ask if there
are any Linux friendly graphics cards, with fully open source
accelerated drivers available, that actually work more or less
perfectly well and have been debugged. I would not mind spending $$ on
such a card.
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| Anton Ertl... |
| Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 2:15 pm |
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Ignoramus4834 <ignoramus4834 at (no spam) NOSPAM.4834.invalid> writes:
Quote: Assuming for a minute that it is true, I would like to ask if there
are any Linux friendly graphics cards, with fully open source
accelerated drivers available, that actually work more or less
perfectly well and have been debugged. I would not mind spending $$ on
such a card.
If you want discrete graphics cards, R200-based cards (e.g., the
Radeon 9250) are pretty good; they come from a time when ATI
cooperated with the free software developers. Then there were the
dark ages when they did not, but some people still produced free
drivers for the R300 and R400 cards, with the R480 (Radeon X850XT)
being the strongest of those; for Flightgear you need to "disable
low-impact fallbacks" with driconf last I tried it
<4F6E6F41DC%news at (no spam) youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>. You can find some
of my experiences with various cards with glxgears and UT2004 in
<2007Feb2.184806 at (no spam) mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>.
ATI has become friendly to free software again, but the results of
that don't seem to be quite here yet.
If you are also interested in integrated graphics, Intel is reportedly
very well-supported, but the hardware is quite limited in performance
(at least according to glxgears numbers in <http://www.free3d.org/>).
- anton
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| Mark Hobley... |
| Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 2:08 pm |
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Anton Ertl <anton at (no spam) mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
Quote: If you want discrete graphics cards, R200-based cards (e.g., the
Radeon 9250) are pretty good; they come from a time when ATI
cooperated with the free software developers.
Indeed. I use Radeon 9000, 9200, and 9250 here. They work fine with open
source drivers.
Quote: Then there were the dark ages when they did not, but some people still
produced free drivers for the R300 and R400 cards, with the R480
(Radeon X850XT) being the strongest of those
I heard that Radeons up to 9600 now work with open source drivers, but I have
not tested these. They are however listed as "stable" with enemy territory,
flightgear and supertuxkart.
Quote: ATI has become friendly to free software again, but the results of
that don't seem to be quite here yet.
The specifications are available, so I hope that we will be seeing drivers
soon.
Quote: If you are also interested in integrated graphics, Intel is reportedly
very well-supported, but the hardware is quite limited in performance
I saw a Pentium 4 with integrated Intel graphics chipset running 3d games
using open source drivers, and it worked fine.
I have also seen Voodoo cards and SiS cards working with open source 3d
drivers. However, these are old cards.
Mark.
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| Anton Ertl... |
| Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:34 am |
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markhobley at (no spam) hotpop.donottypethisbit.com (Mark Hobley) writes:
Quote: Anton Ertl <anton at (no spam) mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
Then there were the dark ages when they did not, but some people still
produced free drivers for the R300 and R400 cards, with the R480
(Radeon X850XT) being the strongest of those
I heard that Radeons up to 9600 now work with open source drivers, but I have
not tested these. They are however listed as "stable" with enemy territory,
flightgear and supertuxkart.
Yes, I have used the 9600 and the X850XT, and tested the X550 and
X800GTO, and 3D worked there; I played quite a bit of UT2004 with
them, but in a few of the levels there were graphics errors
(apparently the free driver does not support a texture compression
method used for these levels).
Even the R500 generation has free drivers 3D acceleration now, but the
version distributed with Ubuntu 9.04 is not very stable yet when doing
3D (tested with an X1650Pro)
<2009May4.194024 at (no spam) mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>.
- anton
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