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Xi graphics www.xig.com
distributes a commercial X-server with hardware accelerated OpenGL graphics that supports mainly ATI graphics chips up to the Radeon
9200. Prices for these drivers with OpenGL functionality start at
69$, which is the same amount of money you would have to pay for a new GeforceFX card including drivers from nVIDIA that deliver significantly higher performance. ATI also provides faster Linux drivers.
There is mainly one situation where the Xig drivers can be very helpful: if you already own a fast ATI
9200 card and absolutely need quad-buffered stereo. Then you can buy the Xig Summit DX Platinum driver for
89$, which is much cheaper than a stereo-capable Quadro card from nVIDIA.
YASARA was tested with an ATI Radeon 9200 and the Summit_DX-Platinum driver version
2.2-16. Once some installation issued are solved, the Xig OpenGL driver runs out of the box without any visual glitches,
albeit at lower speed and less smoothly than the flgrx driver from ATI.
Xig provides detailed installation instructions, nevertheless here are some hints to avoid common pitfalls:
server glx vendor string: Xi Graphics, Inc.
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
client glx vendor string: Xi Graphics, Inc.
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
If it did not work, look at the various FAQ files provided by Xig in the Summit_DX-Platinum directory you untared and in
/usr/src/xig.
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