^ Yeah - I couldn't get my poor ATI card to work as accelerated no matter what I tried back months ago: everything was a pain and nothing (AFAIK) worked, while it seemed (and still seems) so easy for nVidia cards to be accelerated under Linux.
That's why I was so glad to find the newer instructions that I link above (the relatively simple Ubuntu ones, not the more-complex, ati.com ones). Complex as they might seem, the Ubuntu ones are (relatively) simpler than earlier ones and, more importantly, they ACTUALLY WORK (for my Radeon 9600 anyway). I use Digesteroids as the test: when non-accelerated the ship explosion brings the framerate down to around 2-3 FPS, but once I followed the instructions it explodes as smoothly as in Win XP, which indicates that hardware acceleration is working.
It seems better for ATI Radeon cards under Ubuntu now (5.10): only about as complex to run accelerated under it as getting BlitzMax itself to run under it, so that's a big step forward (though certainly not ideal/as simple as in Windows/OSX).
That's why I was so glad to find the newer instructions that I link above (the relatively simple Ubuntu ones, not the more-complex, ati.com ones). Complex as they might seem, the Ubuntu ones are (relatively) simpler than earlier ones and, more importantly, they ACTUALLY WORK (for my Radeon 9600 anyway). I use Digesteroids as the test: when non-accelerated the ship explosion brings the framerate down to around 2-3 FPS, but once I followed the instructions it explodes as smoothly as in Win XP, which indicates that hardware acceleration is working.
It seems better for ATI Radeon cards under Ubuntu now (5.10): only about as complex to run accelerated under it as getting BlitzMax itself to run under it, so that's a big step forward (though certainly not ideal/as simple as in Windows/OSX).