status of 3D support on Linux (original) (raw)

Chien Yang chien.yang at oracle.com
Tue Oct 30 17:21:17 PDT 2012

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

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 -- Udo Rader, CEO BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 5-7, A-6020 Innsbruck http://www.bestsolution.at/ Reg. Nr. FN 222302s am Firmenbuchgericht Innsbruck

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