[Gllug] 3D tools

[Huw Lynes]

On Wednesday 30 January 2002 16:25, Lee Danskin wrote:
> has anyone run linux on a bigboy manufacturer ie dell,intergraph ( as
> was ),hp,compaq,sgi workstation.
> with a 'highend' graphics card ie wildcat 5110 or firegl4 i've heard
> that the nvidia opengl stuff could be
> called interesting/challenging to run but wondered if the more you
> pay etc.....
>

We have run linux on the old HP XL workstations that came with an HP 
tweaked matrox card and proprietory extensions to X. They are quite 
close to the top of my hate list.

Our standard workstation spec is dual athlon + nvidia quadro DCC. The 
nvidea drivers have been giving us problems, however the support we got 
from nvidea was pretty good. The 2314 drivers seem pretty solid 
although there are some issues with remote SGI-GL extensions. We are 
waiting on a bug-fix from nvidea. We run Maya 3.01, Maya 4.0 and Shake 
on these machines. 

We have also tried firegl2 cards which seemed OK but we never really 
put them through their paces properly. 

Wildcat's are very expensive :-)

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