OpenGL 2 supported on ATI RV370?

[Adam K Kirchhoff]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:02:34 +0100
"Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 i386 at work.  The computer has an ATI
> RV370 (X300SE)
> card installed.  According to glxinfo, the supported OpenGL version
> 1.3 using Mesa 7.0.3.
> 
> I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver, the ports are up-to-date.  DRI
> seems to work fine.
> 
> Is there a way to get OpenGL 2 support on this machine (using -CURRENT
> with some patches?)
> or should I install Linux on it so that I can use the commercial
> FGLRX driver?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rene

The r300 Mesa driver supports many of the opengl 2.0 extensions, but
not all of them.  If you need complete opengl 2 support with that card,
then fglrx is much more likely to fulfill your needs.

Adam


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