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Linux, Catalyst 8.9 and Four ATI FireGL V5600 = 8 Monitors

Here is a video that shows OpenGL acceleration on 8 monitors. The system runs Ubuntu 8.04, and four ATI FireGL V5600 graphics cards with Catalyst 8.9. Each FireGL V5600 has 2 DVI ports.



Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by JeGX - September 22, 2008 at 10:57 am

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NVIDIA 177.67 Display Driver for Linux

The just-released NVIDIA 177.67 display driver doesn’t introduce OpenGL 3.0resolve a number of bugs, provide improvements to the Render extension, add official support to the GeForce GTX 260/280 graphics cards, and a number of other improvements.


Read more here: NVIDIA 177.67 Display Driver @ Phoronix

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by JeGX - August 20, 2008 at 10:24 am

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OpenGL Benchmarking On Linux Reaches New Heights

The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available for Linux. Phoronix Test Suite is always looking for new and more demanding OpenGL benchmarks and 2 new benchmarks have been added to the Test Suite: Lightsmark (OpenGL lighting benchmark – built around the Lightsprint SDK) and Unigine (real-time engine that focuses upon photorealistic 3D capabilities for both gaming and virtual reality systems).

Read the complete news here: OpenGL Benchmarking On Linux.


This news allows me to start a new category at Geeks3D: Linux.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by JeGX - August 4, 2008 at 9:55 am

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