On Monday 26 January 2009, Jean-Sebastien Perron wrote: > With the latest realsoft demo on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex with radeon > 9200SE default ubuntu drivers. > > Open GL in view is not working? > > Open GL must be working because I use the full fx in the UI of > Ubuntu + I can play 3D games that use hardware rendering. > > PS : Linux has greatly improved since my last experiments, but > it's only problem is that hardware maker don't support it much. > > Is it me or the industry of 3D software is dying? Almost all the > old companies have been sold many times and some software were > abandoned. > > Jean-Sebastien Perron > www.CombadZ.com
Hi, I had _lots_ of problems with a Radeon 9200 series card on my Debian Linux systems while trying to use the ATI proprietary drivers with RS3D V4/4.5/5 (and a couple of other 3D apps too). Despite the efforts of Realsoft to get this problem sorted out with ATI, it never seemed to be satisfactorily solved and in the end I bought an nVidia card to get around it. Since then however, I've switched to using the Xorg Radeon driver on the system that has this card installed, instead of AMD/ATI's proprietary driver, and RS3D V5 (plus the earlier RS3D V4.5) seems to work ok with it. I don't know if Ubuntu uses the AMD/ATI proprietary driver by default but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. Try running 'glxinfo' in a terminal and check the output to see which driver is being used; the information you should look for will be the 'server glx vendor string', the 'client glx vendor string' and the 'OpenGL vendor string'. These entries will be near the beginning of the output, so you'll have to scroll back up to find them. On the system I have that's using the Xorg radeon driver these read: server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: SGI OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. If any of these read ATI instead, then you're probably using the AMD/ATI proprietary driver. As I don't use Ubuntu I'm not sure how you'd go about switching to the Xorg driver (it used to be specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but I think this file may now be redundant with the latest versions of Xorg) but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a suitable tool to allow you to do it. You may just need to uninstall the proprietary driver and ensure that the Xorg drivers are installed. Probably the best resource for finding out how to do it is the Ubuntu support forums. There is a Realsoft3D linux-user list specifically for linux users of Realsoft3D but it's been very quiet for some time now and I'm not sure of it's current status. HTH LeeE
