Messages in this thread | | | From | Marvin Justice <> | Subject | Re:[OT] What Athlon chipset is most stable in Linux? | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:28:35 -0600 |
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On Wednesday 14 November 2001 07:27 am, Chris Meadors wrote: > Anyway, to keep this kinda kernel related. How well supported are the > FireGL cards? That is DRM wise, and of course X to go with that. > > -Chris
Drivers are distributed pretty much the same way as nVidia, ie., as a binary core along with the necessary wrappers to compile for new kernels, private libGL.so, etc. Aside from that, we've generally had pretty positive experiences.
These aren't quake cards; in fact the demo1 fps are surprisingly low. In serious OpenGL benchmarks, however, (http://www.specbench.org/gpc/opc.static/opcview.htm ) they're currently the fastest cards available for Linux by a long shot.
I think FGL is what people at ILM, Dreamworks, Digital Domain etc. are using at the moment in the gradual shift toward Linux on the artist's desktop. Not cheap --- unless you've already forked over $16K for Maya ;-)
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