Re: [Plib-devel] [OT] FSAA with ati's fglrx

[Bram S. <br...@sa...>]

Steve,

Thank you for the suggestions.

> 1) Does the MOBILITY version of the Radeon 9700 even support
>    FSAA?  I know the mobility chipsets have quite a few limitations
>    compared to the regular 9700.

According to ATI's website, mobility Radeon 9700 does 6x fsaa:
http://ati.com/products/mobilityradeon9700/features.html
They call this SmoothVision(tm)2.1 :-)

> 
> 2) How much graphics memory do you have?  Turning on FSAA consumes
>    a LOT of graphics RAM - especially at higher screen resolutions.
>    Does FSAA turn on when you set the screen size to something
>    really tiny (like 640x480) ?

xfree86 reports 64Mb video memory.
I tried a 640x400 resolution (no virtual desktop).
This still does not do FSAA.

I'm starting to think that this is a linux driver thing.
Unfortunately, ati does zero linux support.
Nvidia's linux support is so much better. I occasionally write
to their linux feedback email address, and I often get usable
responses from them.

    bram

PS: I cannot check FSAA under windows, as this laptop was bought
     with debian pre-installed, although m$ tax was paid :-(