Oliver Fromme wrote on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:09:37AM +0100: > Kip Macy wrote: > > Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > > from what it sounds like it ATI may be more of a realistic hope for > > > compiz, and 3D video games to one day work on 64bit FreeBSD > > > > > > Thank you for taking the time to explain this. > > > > I don't know the status of ATI at the moment - if you want 3D support > > on FreeBSD right *now* I think nvidia/i386 is your only option. > > It depends on your performance requirements. If you don't > need the latest and fastest, an intel graphics chip might > be an option. To my surprise, google earth (my "killer" 3D application) runs fine in this month's Xorg and FreeBSD RELENG_6 on my Radeon 7500 loaded Thinkpad. "fine" limited to after a long time idle it dies but it's really usable for a normal login session. > 3D acceleration support works fine with the i915 in my > two years old notebook, and it's supposed to work as well > with newer ones (although I've seen a problem report for > the i965 recently). 3D performance is sufficient to run > typical OpenGL screen savers or OpenGL games such as > crack-attack or xkobo-deluxe in full screen (1400 x 1050) > without flicker or jitter. That's a 2-years old 1.6 GHz > Pentium-M. Does it run Google Earth? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer_at_cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/Received on Mon Dec 17 2007 - 22:01:11 UTC
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