9700 and linux drivers?

boardboyd · Jan 6, 2003, 02:21 AM

Has anyone tried the card with the new drivers? Does it support opengl, or do you have to do the DRI thing? I'm just asking cause it's the only reason I'm staying with my geforce card, I have wine working with opengl in linux with my geforce4 card. Thanks

UberLord · Jan 6, 2003, 04:05 PM

Works great with the official ATI drivers

Only gripe I have is that UT2003 works at around 1fps :/
Which is kinda odd as Linux UT is a lot faster than Windows UT with both running OpenGL

Forge · Mar 22, 2003, 11:24 PM

UT2K3 shouldn't have any problem with the 2.5.1 drivers. I have a 9700 here doing UT2K3 quite nicely.

As for Linux UT1 working faster, that's because the Windows client is a horrible nasty ugly kludge that is tailored to GLide, and converted (poorly) to OpenGL/D3D, while the Linux client was a complete redesign, with OpenGL as the primary target renderer.

No, the current ATI binary drivers are not compatible with Wine/Winex. They both use a register, and they mutually clobber each other. The next ATI driver should resolve this. The XFree86 3D drivers do not have this issue.

Jan 6, 2003, 02:21 AM	#1
boardboyd DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: In The Great White North Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	9700 and linux drivers? Has anyone tried the card with the new drivers? Does it support opengl, or do you have to do the DRI thing? I'm just asking cause it's the only reason I'm staying with my geforce card, I have wine working with opengl in linux with my geforce4 card. Thanks __________________ TBred B 1700+ @ 2052MHz thermaltake Volcano 11+ Abit KX7-333 512mb Samsung DDR PC3200 MSI Geforce4 Ti 4400 128mb @ 650/310 Lian-Li PC7

Jan 6, 2003, 04:05 PM	#2
UberLord A Legend in Underwear Join Date: May 2002 Location: Unknown Posts: 5,255 Rep Power: 0	Works great with the official ATI drivers Only gripe I have is that UT2003 works at around 1fps :/ Which is kinda odd as Linux UT is a lot faster than Windows UT with both running OpenGL __________________ Gentoo Linux - Developer (baselayout) Read my blog "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." Stephen Roberts

Mar 22, 2003, 11:24 PM	#3
Forge DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: King of Prussia, PA, USA Posts: 107 Rep Power: 0	UT2K3 shouldn't have any problem with the 2.5.1 drivers. I have a 9700 here doing UT2K3 quite nicely. As for Linux UT1 working faster, that's because the Windows client is a horrible nasty ugly kludge that is tailored to GLide, and converted (poorly) to OpenGL/D3D, while the Linux client was a complete redesign, with OpenGL as the primary target renderer. No, the current ATI binary drivers are not compatible with Wine/Winex. They both use a register, and they mutually clobber each other. The next ATI driver should resolve this. The XFree86 3D drivers do not have this issue. __________________ [COLOR=lightgreen] Vargr64[/COLOR]: Core 2 Q9450@3.2 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] OCZ Dominator [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] 4GB G.Skill 800MHz [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] eVGA GeForce 9800GT [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Raptor150+Seag750+Seag640+Seag320+Seag320 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Liteon LH-20A1H [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Liteon LH-20A1S [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] TT Armor+ [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Corsair TX750W [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Gigabyte EP35-DS4 [COLOR=red]\|[/COLOR] Logitech Z-680 [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] Vista64 Ultimate SP1 [COLOR=Red]\|[/COLOR] Ubuntu 8.10 x64