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veverica

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 9

Antialiasing

Today I installed world of goo just to see how it is working with the open source driver( from the xf86-video-ati package ) and it works great, except one thing there is no antialiasing. I checked the config files and there is no option to turn it on or anything similiar.

So my question is there a global way to force antialiasing settings like there is for the propertary nvidia driver ( I know that because my desktop machine is using it )

I am planing to develop a similiar game ( similiar because it would use sdl + 2d opengl ) so I want to know if it would require a propertary driver on linux , please help

veverica

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 9

Re: Antialiasing

Ok, just now I installed neverball and neverput and I don't have anti-aliasing in neither of those games

Is it how it should be or am I missing something ?

quarkup

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-09-07

Posts: 497

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Re: Antialiasing

maybe you should recheck your /etc/xorg.conf and the drivers (ati software and stuff - also check the wiki which is great)

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veverica

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Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 9

Re: Antialiasing

I checked everything, the radeon man page, the wiki page, the xorg wiki page but there isn't even a mention of some kind of options that could help me.

With the propertary driver there is aticonfig that could set the antialiasing option, but i want to try the same thing with the open source one. I can't believe there is not antialiasing for such simple 2D drawing. ( should't compiz use it ?!? )

I would really appreciate it if someone with an open source ati driver checked if he can use antialiasing in simple games ?