[SWLUG] Xgl and Official Hellos

[Andy Dixon]

Dave Cridland wrote:
> On Tue Sep 19 20:36:15 2006, Andy Dixon wrote:
>> I am wondering if anyone has played with Xgl - the OpenGL port of X. 
>> I have tried to install it on my laptop, but it seems that the 
>> graphics adapter (some naff ATI Rage Mobility chipset) does not seem 
>> to support OpenGL in Linux - the fglrx module does not load.
>
> What chipset, precisely?
ATI IXP or something. Its a regret I made. Buying a PC world laptop on 
credit.

> If it's one of the mobile radeons, they're supported by hairy-scary 
> r300 drivers, potentially.
Oh. I have been using the ati module since day 1... I'll have to have a 
look into that. Hopefully it'll work. I have seen descriptions on 
hacking xorg.conf and changing the chip id's (?) - i'll have to research 
further.
>
> But really, I can't help but think that these things are carefully 
> designed for people with more cycles than sense.
Its been designed for Windows. It sickens me when I think these 
companies either are too short-sighted, too lazy or the driver 
developers are just ex-Microsoft code monkeys.

Its like I was looking at a Network Camera. The cheapies all required 
IE5+ and ActiveX. Thats just apalling..