Developing OGRE aps on linux

[Yannick]

specs of my favorite dev laptop:


Turion 2.0 Ghz


2 GB ram


Radeon X200M


ubuntu 10.10 with open source drivers


the ogre samples struggle to keep 20FPS and many show artifacts. fu..... shit


feels like intel graphics! i am sorry intel, your drivers don't show artifacts.


apparently the last supported catalyst driver shipped with ubuntu 8.10. guess what i am downloading right now.


if this doesn't work out, i am going to have to find my win XP recovery disk.


EDIT:


apparently Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS is still supported. 8.10 is not. my mistake

 

[Pickle]

specs of my favorite dev laptop:


Turion 2.0 Ghz


2 GB ram


Radeon X200M


ubuntu 10.10 with open source drivers


the ogre samples struggle to keep 20FPS and many show artifacts. fu..... shit


feels like intel graphics! i am sorry intel, your drivers don't show artifacts.


apparently the last supported catalyst driver shipped with ubuntu 8.10. guess what i am downloading right now.


if this doesn't work out, i am going to have to find my win XP recovery disk.


EDIT:


apparently Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS is still supported. 8.10 is not. my mistake

basically if you want the best performance with ATI you have to use the closed fglrx driver. Which can be troublesome now days since support was dropped from the recent Catalyst packages.


If you cant live with an older distribution then your stuck with the opensource radeon driver which is pretty slow for opengl.


Also keep in mind and time you use an integrated graphics solution the performance is going to be at the bottom.

 

[Yannick]

I am now happily running Ubuntu 8.04 with fglrx 9.3


performance is depending on sample 4x to 7x better then Ubuntu 10.10 with the open source driver


and best of all, all samples run without visual artifacts <= this was what made me so pissed off


I've built ogre from source because the Ogre PPA doesn't include the latest point release for 8.04

 

[Letalis Sonus]

Well, you could try the new Gallium driver (=> Xorg-Edgers PPA). It's still experimental but it already outperforms the classic Mesa driver while being somewhat complete, if you're lucky it works much better.