I'm currently installing the DRI drivers for some of my graphics cards on various boxes and try them on modern games, only to find out that none is usable for 3D. I have a Mach64 Rage Pro, an MGA G400 and a Banshee card (and a Voodoo 2 and TNT2 too) Games tried are Q3A and UT full versions, UT2003 and UT 2004 demos and Americas Army (is it based on UT2003?) Only the Q3A and UT are playable with the DRI drivers (same as at the time when I tried UtahGLX.)
Is the slowness mainly due to the missing DXTC/S3TC functionality, or are they just too old? I also have an ATI 9000 PRO available, not installed yet though. Should I go for the ATI commercial drivers or is there a chance I can use the DRI drivers. I really would like to use open source drivers wherever possible :) I also have an ATI 9800 installed on another box, and for that card the only option so far is the commercial alternative, right? A question about the Mach64 driver. Is there an option for gamma correction in this driver? For example is UT almost unplayable since everything is too dark. Also, which configuration option to set to enable DMA for the Mach64 and MGA drivers. Both are using MMIO according to the XFree86 log file. (I know that Mach64 is not secure yet. Still I would like to enable DMA, asynch or sync?) Is there any hope for open source drivers for high performance cards, taking into consideration the binary alternatives available for cards from ATI, Nvidia or Matrox (Parhelia), etc? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
