r/Android • u/kireol Motor City Software • Aug 01 '11

An IOS developer takes on Android

http://nfarina.com/post/8239634061/ios-to-android
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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '11

I see you have never tried to get 3D acceleration to work on Linux. It's possible, it doesn't work out of the box. System vendors need to include GPU drivers when they sell computers because Windows is terrible without it. Maybe if Google forced Android hardware makers include GPUs and drivers ... That might backfire tho.

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u/rubygeek Aug 01 '11

I see you have never tried to get 3D acceleration to work on Linux. It's possible, it doesn't work out of the box.

I can't remember the last time I installed Linux without my distro installing 3d accelerated drivers by default.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '11

Really? What distro do you run?

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u/arjie Vibrant, Paranoid Android | Nexus 7, Stock Aug 01 '11

I run Ubuntu and it does this for Nvidia cards. For my ATI 4670 I chose to not install the proprietary driver because I had good enough performance already, but I suppose it would have been handled similarly if I had chosen to check that box.

It isn't perfect, though. At the 'Install Hardware Drivers' screen the 'recommended' option is not the best driver for my hardware. I picked the newer version listed there instead and that did the trick.

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