On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Gerald Henriksen wrote: >>The listed applications are nice, but I imagine that there are 2 >>applications for which this distro will be most used: 3D graphical >>engineering workstations, and 3D special effects workstations (for >>Hollywood). > >Did you even read the specs? WS includes XFree 4.1 yet the drivers >for 3D with ATI cards require XFree 4.2!
Red Hat Linux OS products support 3D on ATI video hardware. That includes XFree86 4.1.0, 4.2.0, and soon 4.3.0 as well. The newer releases support more of the newer hardware. Also, ATI has video drivers for Linux, and those drivers are available for 4.1.0 and newer releases of XFree86. Here is the direct download link on ATI's website. I just picked a random high end card: http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+9700+PRO&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next >>work. Only about half the codes we use have a Linux client, but that >>means that certain people would be in good shape to make the switch, and >>use a $3000 dual-Athlon SCSI-based workstation that will blow the pants >>off the $25,000 dual J-class HP workstations we're currently buying. >>Yes, 3D support will be limited, but if you choose your hardware >>correctly, it can still be done. > >See above. You basically will be limited to NVIDIA because ATI does >not support the old software used in WS. http://mirror.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?cboOS=LinuxXFree86&cboProducts=RADEON+9700+PRO&eula=&choice=agree&cmdNext=Next -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
