Easily Test Driving Gallium3D In Ubuntu 10.04
在Ubuntu10.04下轻松尝试Gallium3D驱动
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 上测试 Gallium3D 驱动，却因为建立 Mesa 堆栈的问题而拖延很久。不过现在 Ubuntu xorg-edgers PPA 提供的一些新的软件包已经可以方便的在 Intel、ATI 和 NVIDIA 的硬件上用 Gallium3D 驱动替换 Mesa 驱动了。
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 驱动还在开发中，不过这个驱动已经足够稳定了，Radeon 的 Gallium3D 驱动的表现已经胜过经典的 Mesa ，尽管他还不能和催化剂驱动相比。Nouveau 的 Gallium3D 驱动作为第一个 NVIDIA 的开源 3D 驱动，他的表现已经很不错了。当然，您可以在我们的 Gallium3D 相关产品、新闻上看到其他的细节以及官方记录。
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.
在内部发布的 xorg-edgers PPA 就是现在的 Intel、ATI 和 NVIDIA 的 Gallium3D 驱动。和 Gallium3D 有所不同，早些的 PPA ，比如像 Intel 和 NVIDIA 驱动已经添加了 libgl1-mesa-dri-gallium 包，这样使得他能在经典驱动和 Gallium3D 驱动中方便的切换。Mesa stack 也在4月22日更新了针对 7.9-devel 的代码，所以新的 Mesa 也很不错。
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 在我们的论坛上公布了这些进度，Tormod 也是 Ubuntu X 的贡献者之一，他在我们论坛中建立了一个板块，您可以去看看，如果您遇到任何问题请更新一次 ppa:qorg-edgers/ppa。对 NVIDIA Gallium3D 和内核模式感兴趣的朋友，可以试试 Fedora 13 LiveCD 的启动画面，启动画面默认用的是 Nouveau 驱动（在旧的硬件上使用的经典 Mesa 驱动，其他硬件上是 Gallium3D 驱动）。
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 发布的时候（代号为 Maverick Meerkat），希望我们能看到至少能支持 R300 的驱动（ATI 的 Gallium3D 驱动是面向 R300 到 R500 的，他们都属于 X1000 系列）以及 Nouveau 驱动进入 Ubuntu 栈，为更多的人提供“开箱即用”的体验。