Quake and WebGL

While I'm there, let me just quickly blog about it. Using the developer version of Chromium on OpenSUSE, I just run it with the following arguments:

/usr/bin/chromium --enable-webgl --in-process-webgl

and then I have WebGL at my fingertip. You can test it with some O3D samples (the pool one is pretty cool).

In fact, just go ahead and play Quake II at http://playwebgl.com/games/quake-2-webgl/.

I got bad FPS because I own a cheap laptop (8 FPS is more than what I expect from a $330 box). Obviously you can get 25 FPS or more on a much better machine!

new laptop, free yourself!

The other day, I couldn't resist buying the el-cheapo Athlon 1.6 GHz-powered Acer Aspire 5532 in BestBuy for $330. With its 15.6 inch screen, seems that it is quite a nice bargain. It comes (of course) with Windows 7 Home Premium, but after slapping openSUSE 11.2 DVD I got from the last Camp KDE (must be from Will, thanks dude!) and a bunch of keystrokes, a few hours later the machine happily runs the shiny KDE 4.4. Sound was not a problem, even WiFi was easy to get it working (hard to believe that after all these years, NetworkManager still does not work for me, maybe my bad karma). The included radeonhd driver is good enough for its Radeon HD 3200 (RS780M chipset), but for the sake of testing, I did install ATI fglrx 7.4 10.1 and, voila, I got flawless KWin desktop effects. Even proprietary stuff like Opera, Skype, and Flash plugin faced no serious problem as well.

Time for some fun hacking! :)

Obligatory click-to-enlarge desktop snapshot follows: