QuoteThis level of unreliability is no good. Native Linux apps is what we need. The only app I've used that seems to work faultlessly every time is Artrage. Wine will get better though, I'm sure.
I absolutely agree with you, native is the way to go. I have not heard about the progress of Terragen2 under Linux for quite a while now, is there anything more substantial than a command-line-renderer-on-a-ready-when-it's-ready-basis that it was a year ago ? I would offer my help (as I make a living from coding multiplatform image-processing related things), but I'm under the impression that the Terragen team is not too keen on including 'outsiders' (I'm sure they have their reasons).
Another stopgap measure could be what google did with Picasa. They are bundling it with a custom tailored version of Wine (which does not mix with you 'regular' install) so it has good overall compatibility for their app (it might have fixes which break other things, but you are using it for Picasa only, anyway). Not a real solution (which as you said would be a proper linux native app which is not that hard to make these days), but a measure to keep people happy (and away from Wine compatibility issues).
Quote from: efflux on October 19, 2007, 07:36:59 PM
Yes I think it's the MESA OpenGL. I never used ATI's drivers they were useless and anyway I think although they initially had a Linux driver for it, they stopped supporting my card which I think is an ATI 9200. Not at my Linux system now so can't check but there is no solution. It's the Open GL. NVidia are better with Linux or new ATIs I think.
Strange, I thought 9200 was the last with full OpenGL support even in the open driver. At the moment NVidia does seem to a better (less painful, to be more precise) choice under linux. Could you type in the command from above (in a console) and see what it returns (glxinfo|grep string) ? Also, check whether you have a Driver "ati" or Driver "radeon" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf Device section.
