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Re: linux 64 [message #45787 is a reply to message #45699]

Mon, 03 October 2005 21:08

Karl[1]
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Regarding IDL on FC4: I just tried IDL 6.2 on FC 4. I installed FC 4
on a 32-bit machine and used yum to update everything. I noticed that
there were a lot of updates for Xorg and GL support as well as a kernel
update. I didn't try IDL before the update, so I don't know if it
would have failed before the update.

I also installed the compat-libstdc++-33 rpm so that the C++-based libs
would load.

Object Graphics seems to be OK, but slow, as expected. That is because
I have not yet made any attempt to install vendor drivers for the
Radeon 800 card. The Xorg server is using the fallback software
renderer.

This can be seen by running glxinfo:
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1)

(Note that IDL uses Mesa on the client side for software rendering
while Xorg uses it for both client-side GLX support and server-side
rendering.)

I still need to try to install the vendor h/w accel support if ATI has
drivers out for this distro, but my point is that you might try getting
the latest FC4 update if you have not already.

Also, I think that some of the newer Xorg releases are now starting to
include hardware drivers for some of the more common chipsets with the
intent of giving you h/w accel out of the box. It could be that
updating FC4 may address the problem you are seeing.

Karl

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		linux 64 By: R.Bauer on Mon, 26 September 2005 23:51
		Re: linux 64 By: Robert Barnett on Sun, 02 October 2005 01:34
		Re: linux 64 By: Karl[1] on Mon, 03 October 2005 21:08
		Re: linux 64 By: Karl Schultz on Wed, 05 October 2005 10:35
		Re: linux 64 By: Rick Towler on Mon, 03 October 2005 14:54

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