[geeks] Linux GL note, may be of interest to Andrew

[Shawn Wallbridge]

We have a couple Oxygen GVX1 Pro's here and we were not impressed. Everyone
liked the GeForce2 Ultra better. I actually have one sitting on my desk
doing nothing.

The main thing was the drivers. We had all kinds of display corruption
problems. I am pretty sure it was because we were running them on Dual
Athlon machines ( = via chipset), but we don't have any high end machines
with Intel chipsets.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Sridhar the POWERful
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:58 PM
To: Joshua D Boyd
Cc: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Linux GL note, may be of interest to Andrew


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> Interesting linux OpenGL tidbit.  From the Maya site, Maya runs best on
the
> ATI FireGL 2 and 4 cards.  Now the SGI linux machines, not the fancy HPs
> with the HP Xserver, but the FireGL 2s and 4s with XFree.  Plus the
FireGLs
> apparently support workstation features like overlay planes.  Sweet.  I
wonder
> what these cards cost, and if they are more stable than my nvidea card.

I might be wrong, but if memory serves, these cards are between $1000 and
$2000.  They will be easily faster than a GeForce, and a bit faster than a
Quadro.  They will be slower than a GLoria, or one of the faster Oxygens,
or any of the newer Wildcats.

Peace...  Sridhar