From: Michael Brooks Date: 2010-01-15T19:20:13+09:00 Subject: Re: 3D with Ruby (Ogre ?) Hello Michal: "Michal Suchanek" wrote in message news:a5d587fb1001150147g76ab218aw2beb6a7c663cadc8@mail.gmail.com... > 2010/1/15 Phillip Gawlowski : >> On 15.01.2010 07:40, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>> The problem is that Intel does not do special driver for Linux, their >>> hardware is supposedly supported by X11/Mesa and the proprietary >>> drivers for ATI/nVidia cards simply don't work (tried with recent >>> cards about half an year ago). >> >> http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/cs-010512.htm >> >> They weren't particularly good until recently, but they are there. > > These *are* the X11/Mesa drivers and they *are* bad as in having few > features, possibly in part because of limitations of the Intel > hardware. > > The stability has also worsened recently. Too many chipset revisions > with different hardware issues I guess. > > Thanks > > Michal Sorry to hear that. I do most of my work in Windows. I just booted my desktop into Mint Linux 7 which already had the Nvidia 3D drivers installed then installed ruby 1.8.7, glut, ruby-opengl and ran the gears_with_shaders.rb file just fine. I've had the best success with Nvidia under Linux. Even the Geforce Go 6150 in my old HP tx1000 laptop supports OpenGL 2.1 in Mint Linux 8. I've had some success with ATI in Linux but it varies greatly for different models and from distro-to-distro. I'd heard that the Intel x3100 IGP and later chipsets were supposed to support OpenGL 2.0+ but haven't had direct experience with them. Michael