Re: Why not 3D support with Ruby

[Helge H. <hel...@ai...>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Mario Scheel wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Why is it not possible to use 3D with Ruby?
> I use my Computer with my girlfriend and sometimesI need this support, e.g. 
> for qemu.
> 
> Is this technical impossible or is the code not yet good enough?
> 
> I hope you can me understand.
> 
But it is possible.  With ruby+linux 2.6.8.1 I get 3D, both
on the matrox G550 AGP and the radeon 9200SE PCI, simultaneously
if need be.  The radeon isn't entirely stable, but that is a radeon
driver problem, not a ruby problem.  (It is just as bad if I
boot plain linux and use only one xserver.)

To do this, you need two video cards, and 3D support for both. Then
you run one xserver on each card - X supports 3D just fine.

All you need is cards with good 3D support _and_ who don't mind
to be used along with another card.  Some cards wants to be
the only one, unfortunately.

Helge Hafting