Vista, etc. (was: Re: Employment linux admin/programmer wanted)

[Simon]

Have you ran glxinfo like LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo?  If your
Xorg.log seems to indicate you have it, but glxinfo says you don't,
that will tell you why.

As for me, I have hardware acceleration working fine, but fglrx is
slower than Windows, and freezes the box on logout, while r300 is more
stable than fglrx (things break, but just crash the app and not the
hardware) but way slower than either of ATI's drivers.

On 12/11/06, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:46:24 -0500
> Simon got an infinite number of monkeys to type out:
>
> >  Here's to hoping AMD has the right attitude about ATI's graphics
> > chips and free software, cause one of my dreams is to be able to game
> > on Linux without any compromise.  That's the sort of thing that
> > motivates me, believe it or not..
>
> Funny you say that, that's exactly what prompted me to reply the way I did. My
> GL rendering is borked, and I have been to hell and back trying to figure out
> why. Every single diagnostic I run (glxinfo, blah blah blah, into infinity)
> says that all the libraries are in the correct path, the right strings are
> being passed from libGL.so.1, etc.
>
> Direct rendering? No (and no, I don't have composite enabled).
>
> Sigh. That's why, if someone could set up a box for me that would just do
> gaming, and handle a reasonable level of graphics (I'm not looking for Doom3 at
> 1600x1200x24 here), that would be severely hard to resist. I'm so sick of the
> balancing act between a solid, up-to-date, good build environment, and just
> having a whole lot of silly fun. MDV 2007 ain't lookin' much better, either.
>
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