Re: [Dri-devel] Hardware specs (was Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-16 Thread Frank Earl
On Sunday 16 September 2001 23:53, Brian Paul wrote: > Anyway, those are my hunches. I could probably play devil's advocate > and come up with more issues but those are the first that come to mind. Those are the ones that come immediately to mind whenever I've actually gotten into frank (no pu

[Dri-devel] Hardware specs (was Progress of mesa-3.5 tree?)

2001-09-16 Thread Brian Paul
--- Frank Worsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As usual I have to give my 2 cents on this. :) > > First off all, it is very sad to hear that the whole team has been let go > from VA Linux. I wish all of you the best luck in the future. Thanks a lot > for all the work you have put into this! > >

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-16 Thread Manuel Teira
El Dom 16 Sep 2001 18:00, Leif Delgass escribió: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Manuel Teira wrote: > > BTW. Could anybody say me what is the AVOID_CPIO define used for ? > > Looking at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/Imakefile, this is > defined by default only for Sparc and PPC. Here's the c

Re: [Dri-devel] Rage 128 + bttv

2001-09-16 Thread Gerd Knorr
> The Radeon driver has some CP code for 2D that should be easily ported > to the Rage128's CCE engine. Although it only accelerates SolidFill and > ScreenToScreenCopies it should help a lot. Hmm, maybe it's easy for someone who doesn't touch the dri code for the first time, but not for me. I've

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-16 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > I'd like to extend a personal thanks for all of the fantastic > work that has been done, to all those who have contributed to > these efforts of bringing 3D to Linux. > Not just linux. :) Don't forget that their open-source e

[Dri-devel] Dri Progress.

2001-09-16 Thread Jeffrey M Einhorn
The fact of the matter is that without funding it will always be difficult find decent dri drivers for unixes. Nvidia spends alot of money on driver development and that is why their drivers both perform well and are easy to install on multiple platforms. You would think that a company like redh

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-16 Thread Leif Delgass
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Manuel Teira wrote: > BTW. Could anybody say me what is the AVOID_CPIO define used for ? Looking at xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/Imakefile, this is defined by default only for Sparc and PPC. Here's the comment: /* * The following configuration logic is only

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-16 Thread Nathan Hand
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:32:15AM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Friday 14 Sep 2001 6:58 pm, you wrote: > > > I think people need to take a step back and have a think about how much > > money it costs to support top-class developers like those work/have worked > > on the DRI. We're talking hund

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-16 Thread Manuel Teira
El Sáb 15 Sep 2001 18:02, escribiste: > Sorry, haven't had much time to package things up (I barely had time to do > what little I tried this week to get the hang, with all the insanity going > on)- I'll try tomorrow or monday to get it all back out. > OK, I know you are busy. I'm expecting your

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Progress of mesa-3.5 tree? Update to Mesa-3.6/4.0

2001-09-16 Thread Andrew James Richardson
Dear Gareth and all, I think that people need to calm down --- the issue of funding seems to be in the forefont of everyone's mind. I'm just going to enumerate some things. 1) People NEED to work for a living. If thats working for VA or PI doing open source DRI drivers or working for NVIDIA