thomas.waldinger
i´m using a firegl x1 card and can´t say i´m very happy with the performance of their linux drivers.
the problem with your empty houdini window is 99.9% the driver. i installed the new one today and it happend to me,too.
just try one of their previous drivers.
i personaly stick to a older driver, which didn`t support opengl 2.0.(thats 8.19.10 for firegl cards)
as for some obscure reasons the newer drivers with ogl 2 did slow down glxgears by 800 fps at my pc.
Hmmm… tried 8.19.10 and it did the same thing :-(
And for me, it slowed down glxgears by about 20%!!
But, I'm using a different card, so I guess that's not unexpected. Just shows how bad ATI's drivers are.
-andrew