Easily Test Driving Gallium3D In Ubuntu 10.04
在Ubuntu10.04下輕松嘗試Gallium3D驅動
Posted by Michael Larabel on April 24, 2010
If you have been wanting to test drive the Gallium3D drivers on your new Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" installation but have been put off by the idea of building the Mesa stack yourself, fear not any longer. There's some new packages in the Ubuntu xorg-edgers PPA for easily facilitating the switch from classic Mesa to Gallium3D for Intel, ATI, and NVIDIA hardware.
如果您早就打算在 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 上測試 Gallium3D 驅動，卻因為建立 Mesa 堆棧的問題而拖延很久。不過現在 Ubuntu xorg-edgers PPA 提供的一些新的軟件包已經可以方便的在 Intel、ATI 和 NVIDIA 的硬件上用 Gallium3D 驅動替換 Mesa 驅動了。
While Gallium3D is still in development, it's stabilizing well and the Radeon Gallium3D driver is out-performing the classic Mesa driver though it's not yet outperforming the Catalyst driver. The Nouveau Gallium3D driver, which is the first open-source 3D driver for NVIDIA graphics processors, is also working fairly well. Of course, you can check out our many Gallium3D articles and news postings for other details on the drivers and state trackers, if you haven't been staying up-to-date with our frequent information.
Gallium3D 驅動還在開發中，不過這個驅動已經足夠穩定了，Radeon 的 Gallium3D 驅動的表現已經勝過經典的 Mesa ，盡管他還不能和催化劑驅動相比。Nouveau 的 Gallium3D 驅動作為第一個 NVIDIA 的開源 3D 驅動，他的表現已經很不錯了。當然，您可以在我們的 Gallium3D 相關產品、新聞上看到其他的細節以及官方記錄。
Being dropped inside the xorg-edgers PPA is now Gallium3D drivers for Intel, ATI, and NVIDIA. This is different than the Gallium3D support found in earlier PPAs as the Intel and NVIDIA drivers have been added and a libgl1-mesa-dri-gallium package has been introduced, which makes it easier to switch to/from the classic and Gallium3D drivers. The Mesa stack has also been updated against the 7.9-devel code-base as of the 22nd of April, so it's also nice and fresh.
在內部發布的 xorg-edgers PPA 就是現在的 Intel、ATI 和 NVIDIA 的 Gallium3D 驅動。和 Gallium3D 有所不同，早些的 PPA ，比如像 Intel 和 NVIDIA 驅動已經添加了 libgl1-mesa-dri-gallium 包，這樣使得他能在經典驅動和 Gallium3D 驅動中方便的切換。Mesa stack 也在4月22日更新了針對 7.9-devel 的代碼，所以新的 Mesa 也很不錯。
This work was announced by Tormod in our forums, which is one of the Ubuntu X contributors, and makes our forums one of the places you can go (along with all of the other developers and testers that are there) if you run into any problems once tossing in ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa and updating your graphics stack. For those just interested in trying out the NVIDIA Gallium3D and kernel mode-setting support, an easy way to do that is by trying Fedora 13 as even their LiveCD ships with the Nouveau (classic Mesa for old hardware, Gallium3D for all non-vintage ASICs) by default.
Tormod 在我們的論壇上公布了這些進度，Tormod 也是 Ubuntu X 的貢獻者之一，他在我們論壇中建立了一個板塊，您可以去看看，如果您遇到任何問題請更新一次 ppa:qorg-edgers/ppa。對 NVIDIA Gallium3D 和內核模式感興趣的朋友，可以試試 Fedora 13 LiveCD 的啟動畫面，啟動畫面默認用的是 Nouveau 驅動（在舊的硬件上使用的經典 Mesa 驅動，其他硬件上是 Gallium3D 驅動）。
By the time that Ubuntu 10.10 (codenamed the Maverick Meerkat) rolls around in October, hopefully we will find at least the R300g (ATI's Gallium3D driver for R300-500 hardware, up through the Radeon X1000 series family) and the Nouveau driver become part of the Ubuntu stack to provide a more pleasant "out of the box" experience.
等到十月， Ubuntu 10.10 發布的時候（代號為 Maverick Meerkat），希望我們能看到至少能支持 R300 的驅動（ATI 的 Gallium3D 驅動是面向 R300 到 R500 的，他們都屬於 X1000 系列）以及 Nouveau 驅動進入 Ubuntu 棧，為更多的人提供“開箱即用”的體驗。
