UNC Linux Users Group

["Tanner Lovelace" <lovelace AT cs.unc.edu>]

On 5/25/06, Jesse Aaron Safir <jesse_safir AT unc.edu> wrote:
> Greg et al,
>
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Using_Xgl_on_SUSE_Linux
> >
> > Steps your through the process. It is unclear to me if the i830 is
> > supported. Best thing to do is try. The i845 is supported.
>
> So...these instructions say to install the NVIDIA drivers.  I can do that
> but I'd just like to make sure this applies even if you don't have an
> NVIDIA graphics chipset.  I have an ATI Mobility Radeon in my ThinkPad
> R40.  Perhaps I'm asking too much, but I'd like this to work under VMWare
> Workstation v5.5.1.  In this case, SuSE 10.1 sees the graphics card as
> "VMWare Inc VMWARE0405".  Is this Xgl still still as "experimental" as
> these docs make it sound?  I thought maybe it came installed in SuSE 10.1
> by default and took advantage of most graphics cards that do OpenGL.

Looks like the instructions have been updated.  They now mention
ATI specifically.  Basically, the point is that Xgl, since it uses OpenGL
to do all the fancy acceleration stuff, must have hardware accelerated
3D graphics and that only happens with the correct driver for your system.

Cheers,
Tanner
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