status of 3D support on Linux

[Chien Yang]

Yes, please give it a try once the binary is available by end of this 
week. Any feedback on JavaFX stability running on ATI/AMD GPU will be 
greatly appreciated. So far our testing has been limited to Ubuntu 12.04 
(32-bit) using AMD proprietary fglrx driver.

Information on installing fglrx driver:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

- Chien

On 10/30/2012 3:54 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>
>> #1 does resolving the above issue bring 3D support to Linux for 
>> AMD/ATI devices?
>
> Yes. This should be available in this week's JDK8 build. Chien was 
> going to send out a "try it and let us know" e-mail, so he may want to 
> follow up on this.
>
>> #2 what about other GPUs, such as the extremely common Intel HD GPUs?
>
> Unplanned for FX 8. The problem is that the Intel OpenGL drivers on 
> Linux have been historically very bad in terms of quality and 
> compliance. There is some anecdotal evidence that this is changing, 
> but we don't want to support it. There is a system property you can 
> set to force this for testing, but no way to deploy an application 
> using it.
>
>
>> #3 any plans to support OpenSource/Gallium3D based drivers (ie 
>> nouveau/radeon)? 
>
> Not support, no. But it might "just work" and is something you could try.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Udo Rader wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are currently evaluating our options on getting 3D support for 
>> Linux based devices and were stunned to find that currently only the 
>> proprietary nVidia driver is supported on Linux.
>>
>> Now after http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-24712 ("Support 
>> ATI/AMD GPU on the Linux platform") has been resolved I am wondering 
>> what that means.
>>
>> So, 3 questions:
>>
>> #1 does resolving the above issue bring 3D support to Linux for 
>> AMD/ATI devices?
>>
>> #2 what about other GPUs, such as the extremely common Intel HD GPUs?
>>
>> #3 any plans to support OpenSource/Gallium3D based drivers (ie 
>> nouveau/radeon)?
>>
>> IMHO bringing 3D support to Linux based (embedded) devices is very 
>> important to bring JavaFX forward.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Udo
>>
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