Linux and OpenGL hardware

[David Gobbi]

Hi Oliver,

We have been using both the TNT2 cards (ELSA Erazor III, Viper V770)
and Matrox cards (G200 and G400).  Both work very well, except for
some issues with memory cleanup for texture maps (if you don't do
intensive texture map reloading, you won't notice the problem).
The TNT2 support is 16-bit only under Linux, and I haven't gotten
the 32-bit texture support for the G400 working.

My pick would be the G400.  Linux support appears to be moving ahead 
much more rapidly than the TNT2 or Voodoo boards and it provides 
better visual quality than either. 

There is also commercial (i.e. $100US and up) support for 3DLabs, 
ATI, and Evans and Sutherland from Accelerated X.

 - David

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  David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Oliver Gloth wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Due to the budget system at German universities we have to buy a PC,
> which will also be used for VTK-based visuliasation, by Friday. My
> question is what graphics hardware to people recommend. We plan to use
> Linux on that PC. Unfortunately we don't have lot's of experience with
> OpenGL. Right now we use the MesaGL library (software rendering only).
> Any help is very welcome!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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