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Re: Linux and 3D graphics hardware support [message #24229]

Wed, 21 March 2001 08:15

Vapuser
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Carsten Dominik <dominik@astro.uva.nl> writes:

> Hi,
>
> my Boss is buing me a new Linux PC to run IDL on. One of the things I
> want to do is 3D graphics, and I know that IDL can support some hardware
> acceleration of 3D graphics.
>
> Where can I find information on what video cards can be be used for
> that?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Carsten

Carsten;

Info on the status of 3D and Linux is at http://glide.xxedgexx.com/.

Hardware acceleration requires certain boards and usually a
special X server. See
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/genframe.php3?hardware for more info.

MetroLink used to talk quite a bit about their X server, which they
claim supported hardware accelerated OpenGL on some cards, but
they're rewritten their web pages and I can't find it now.

Check http://www.metrolink.com and drop them a line.

Looks like Liam already posted the URL for Xi graphics. They're one
of the other companies supplying this functionality.

whd

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