FC14 good/bad news

Terry Barnaby terry1 at beam.ltd.uk
Mon Nov 29 09:03:53 UTC 2010


On 11/28/2010 10:52 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> su, 2010-11-28 kello 20:06 +0000, Terry Barnaby kirjoitti:
>> This is not so important as running 3D apps though. Blender will not
>> run on 
>> either of these systems (huge delays when posting menus etc). Mind you
>> on
>> Intel I945 hardware blender just causes the X-Server to lock-up hard,
>> so its
>> not just ATI cards. 
> 
> It's probably has nothing in common with your problem, but on my system
> (2.6.32.23-170.fc12.i686, upgraded from F11) I've aliased blender as
> follows:
> ~]$ which blender
> alias blender='LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 blender'
> My videocard is:
> product: RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
> vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
> (driver is radeon)
> Before doing that I had some problems with blender (i.e. white screen
> instead of coordinate grid, empty boxes where different menus and popus
> should be, etc.). Now it works like a charm.

Thanks for the info. But I think using software rendering will make bender
to slow for the sort of 3D performance I need. Will try it though.
But really, 3D hardware support for major graphics chipsets should be relatively
solid by now...


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