Hi,
after the report of 'resolved' opengl 2.0 from ati customer
support, and after trying last 8.29.6 driver showing no opengl
2.0 compiling Cinelerra, I wrote again to ati, reopening the
ticket.
Here is what I wrote:
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Having no feedback I don't know if "RESOLVED" means 'resolved',
in the sense that the problem is solved, or 'resolved' in the
sense that the issue is clarified, but there's no possibility of
having OpenGL 2.0 on my (and on other) radeon; by the way, also
if the specs of the laptop vendor say 9700, lspci returns 9600
Rx350 (where x stands for a letter I don't remember at the
moment.
So, I tried the driver 8.29.6, with Ubuntu Drapper Drake (that
means xorg 7.0), plus a vanilla kernel 2.6.17, and for me the
issue is not resolved.
I test for OpenGL compliance with the following script:
#!/bin/sh
# test for OpenGL 2.0
rm -f a.out conftest.c
cat > conftest.c << EOF
#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glext.h>
#include <GL/glu.h>
int main()
{
glUseProgram(0);
return 0;
}
EOF
gcc conftest.c -lGL -lGLU
if [ -x a.out ]; then HAVE_GL='yes OpenGL 2.0'; else HAVE_GL='no
OpenGL 2.0'; fi
echo
echo $HAVE_GL
Hoping that can clarify what I'm saying.
best regards,
ciao
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Today ati answered!!!!
Well what they say is (copy/paste, no joke):
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Solved: (10/4/2006 11:00 AM EDT)
There is no feedback I can provide. We are not supporting our
Linux drivers. They are there for customer whom wish to try
them, however. We also do not provide technical support for
laptop products. We do not provide drivers for laptop products
as well.
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Do I need to say anything more?
I'm sad I can't remove the graphic card from my laptop.
Ciao, Leo
--- "sf...st.net" <sfra...ast.net> wrote:
> Thanks Leo!
> scott
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Leonardo <le...oo.com>
> > 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.
> >
> >
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