On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, hans schneidhofer wrote: > hi, > am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux > with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. > > Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. > > what I should do with it : > making animations, making pictures (combine together) and sound > > which software do I need for that purpose and is that software available on > mandrake ? > > The reason asking this is, I have downloaded some graphicspackages, but a lot > of them needs some requirements, which I have not found yet or does not run > on my "testenvironment", which is a 350 MHZ AMD, mdk 8.0, about 50 Gigs HD, > an ATI Rage Card and a USB-connection. > > USB does NOT run, ATI Rage have a lot of problems with 3D-Accelerating and > have damaged 3 ATI's right now with the hardware-accelerator of mdk's 8.0 > 4.0.3-version of XFree86. > > Hope to get some experiences and advicements > thanks for helping and ideas > bye hans Hans,
the very first thing I would do with that hardware is update the version of Mandrake I'm running. 8.2 has much better hardware support then does 8.0. once you've got that done I have a feeling you'll have a better idea of where to go next. -- daRmaTTeR Reg. Linux User #186492 "Stupidity has no moral high ground!" Mark Weaver (c) 2002
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