OpenGL 2 supported on ATI RV370?

[Rene Ladan]

2008/11/20 Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com>:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:02:34 +0100
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> "Rene Ladan" <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 i386 at work. The computer has an ATI
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>> RV370 (X300SE)
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>> card installed. According to glxinfo, the supported OpenGL version
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>> 1.3 using Mesa 7.0.3.
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>> I'm using the xf86-video-ati driver, the ports are up-to-date. DRI
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>> seems to work fine.
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>>
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>> Is there a way to get OpenGL 2 support on this machine (using -CURRENT
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>> with some patches?)
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>> or should I install Linux on it so that I can use the commercial
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>> FGLRX driver?
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> The r300 Mesa driver supports many of the opengl 2.0 extensions, but
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> not all of them. If you need complete opengl 2 support with that card,
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> then fglrx is much more likely to fulfill your needs.
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That would be xf86-video-ati with mesa-7.0.3 ?  That only claims to support
OpenGL 1.3.  I'm currently burning a Ubuntu 8.10 CD so that I can use the
FGLRX driver.  The port I mentioned yesterday isn't recognized by (modern
versions of) X.org.

Rene
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