Depends what you are looking for. There are A LOT of improvements in DRI CVS since 4.3.0 was released, however, they are still not quite as full featured as the ATI ones. current CVS supports opengl on all radeon chips except the r300 based cores. Alex ------------------------ Hmm, I went to the commerical drivers for the opengl support (I'm running ProEngineer), driver that came with RH 9 did not do opengl at all. The commerical drivers have great performance, see: http://www.proesite.com/BENCH30/Wildfire_benchmark.pdf Are the latest OSS drivers improved in this matter? -- Sepehr (Sep) Kiani ************************************ Development Engineering Teradyne Connection Systems skiani@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://pergatory.mit.edu/skiani Alex Deucher wrote: >We can't really help you much with the ati binary driver; for support >of that you should contact ati directly. However, I would recommend >the opensource radeon driver along with my mergedfb code. It supports >all of what you seem to be asking for, plus it will enable dual or >single head based on whether or not you have an external monitor >attached. xrandr will also enable you to resize or desktop on the fly. >In addition, it supports a built in xinerama extension so windows will >maximize properly when using dual head, 3d is enabled on both heads, >and the video overlay will follow your video window between heads. >Radeon Mergedfb is available in DRI cvs. you can download snapshots >here: >http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ > >see this page for more information: >http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276 > >Alex > > >--------------------- > >Hi, has anyone been able to get an external monitor to work on an IBM >T40p laptop (might be the same as T40 or T41)? I'm running Redhat 9. >I'm >also >running the commerical ATI video driver on stock RH9 Xfree and have >been >trying to configure >for dual monitor (projector) display. When using x86config-4 file below > >in either >the "DualScreen" or "Clone" ServerLayouts I get a "fatal error monitor >not found" on the second screen. Any suggestions? > >I would also liek like to beable to switch this on the fly (like xrandr > >allows me to change res >on the fly) without restarting X. Is this possible? Are their any nice >gui's for doing it (and xrandr for that matter)? > >thanks, > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
