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Disclaimer: work in progress, this section is is by no means a correct, complete nor deterministic reference. It is only a reference at the time of writing and is probably outdated constantly. If your graphics card is untested, it may or may not work with Gazebo/Ogre. When in doubt, please check with the ros-users mailing list or contact the authors.
Graphics Card Requirements
Please note that Gazebo requires working graphics card with OpenGL 3D accelerated driver to perform various rendering and image simulation tasks correctly. However, if you do not have a working graphics card, you can still run Gazebo headless at the expense of not having camera simulations and a working gazebo gui. If proper tf frames are setup, one can still view robot states through rviz.
Here are some tested working cards and drivers:
Graphics Card
Driver
Platform / OS
nVidia GeForce 210
64Bit Ubuntu Karmic
nVidia GeForce GT 240
The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.04 hardware manager
32Bit Ubuntu 10.04
nVidia GTS 360M
The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.04 hardware manager
64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
nVidia GTX 275
The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.04 hardware manager
64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
nVidia GTX 285M
nVidia 260 and 270
64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
nVidia GeForce 9500 GT
The one that is selected by Ubuntu 10.10 hardware manager, or even better, the newest nvidia driver using ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
64Bit Ubuntu 10.10
nVidia GeForce 6200
32Bit/64Bit Ubuntu Hardy and Karmic
nVidia GeForce 5200
32Bit/64Bit Ubuntu Hardy and Karmic
nVidia GeForce 8400GT
32Bit/64Bit Ubuntu Hardy and Karmic
ATI Radeon HD 3450
Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics snapshot of restricted drivers manager
Ubuntu Karmic
ATI Radeon HD 3850
Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (from here), also had to disable Gnome's fancy visual effects
Ubuntu Karmic
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver) - Need to turn off visual effects
64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver)
64bit Ubuntu Karmic
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730
The one that is automatically selected in Ubuntu 10.04
Need to turn off compositing (e.g. use metacity instead of compiz). 64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
ATI integrated Radeon HD4200
Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver)
64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
ATI Radeon HD5770
Proprietary driver for ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics (Ubuntu restricted driver)
64Bit Ubuntu 10.04
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 |
Open source ATI driver shipped with 64Bit Ubuntu Karmic. Occassional segfaults when system load is heavy. |
64Bit Ubuntu Karmic |
- Here are some cards and drivers that do not work at all or works partially.
Graphics Card
Driver
Platform / OS
ATI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100 QY)
Open source ATI driver
n/a
ATI Radeon 9200SE
Open source ATI driver
32Bit Ubuntu Hardy
