Hi all, I reported the issue to ATI on 15.08.2006 (maybe somebody else did), it has the Customer Care Ticket n. 737-1083582.
Today I checked again, ant they mark the stuff as RESOLVED, so maybe next Linux driver will have full OpenGL 2.0; more I don't know, they usually don't answer directly to questions, but use them as feedback from the community to debug/improve the driver. I copy/paste below what I wrote to ATI. Ciao, Leo ---------------------------------------------------------- Ticket #: 737-1083582 Status: Resolved Date Created: 8/15/2006 7:35 AM EDT Date Updated: 8/29/2006 9:49 AM EDT Product: Radeon 9700 PRO Summary: How much of Opengl2.0 Details: Hi, thanks for the Linux driver, also if it's not (yet) GNUed; I write because the movie editing program I'm using, http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 , could get huge benefits from a full OpenGl 2.0 implementation, but from what I come to know from Cinelerra mailing list: > ATI supports some OpenGL 2.0 commands but not > the OpenGL 2.0 version of the shading language, > which makes it a pretty worthless release. > The ATI driver uses a version of the shading > language called the ARB extension. The ARB > extension was used before OpenGL 2.0 was > finished. Is there a hope to see a full OpenGL implementation in ATI Linux driver soon? That would be nice. Or is it a hardware limitation? (and maybe I need to buy another graphic card from... the other vendor). --------------------------------------------------------- > > The conclusion after our chat was that the ati-fglrx package > for FC4 > > advertises OpenGL 2.0 in glxinfo, but in fact lacks the > necessary entry > > points in its libGL.so.1.2. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
