Hi,
There is a HOWTO on opengl in linux:
http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/xf3D/howto/3Dfx-HOWTO.html
I have got a Diamond Viper v550 with 16M of RAM.
GL screensavers and quake work excellently in Win98 ;-)
I did not have time to try opengl in linux; however, X works quite well.
-alexm
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Ruben Schattevoy wrote:
>
> > if I'm going to buy a new graphics board which shall support or
> > atleast is expected to support soon OpenGL in hardware, would an
> >
> > Elsa-Gloria-Synergy
> >
> > be the right (and only) choice?
>
> Well, it depends. If you want to have hardware-accelerated OpenGL _now_,
> you should consider a card based on the 3dfx Voodoo, Voodoo2 or Voodoo
> Rush chipset. We are indeed working on OpenGL based on the Permedia2
> chipset (which is used on the Gloria Synergy), but it is not usable for
> productive use yet.
>
> > At least this board is listed in a SuSE web-page where the SuSE people
> > tell, that they currently are adapting the mesa driver to support
> > hardware acceleration. Is this board available with more than 8MB RAM?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
> > Are there other (commercial) OpenGL implementations available for SuSE
> > linux?
>
> Metrolink also announced Hardware-OpenGL. See http://www.metrolink.com for
> more info.
>
> Bye,
>
> LenZ
>
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