Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Improved pageflipping for tcl branch (and others eventually)

2002-05-20 Thread Michael
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:14:45AM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > I have a .XF86config-radeon that sets ModulesPath to that directory, and maybe > I need to set an env var or two... I guess the magic is adding up. Yeah, I should have rtfm'd, ModulesPath into .../exports/lib/modules fixes it, tha

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Improved pageflipping for tcl branch (and others eventually)

2002-05-20 Thread Keith Whitwell
Michael wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:46:41PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Michael, > > > > I've added some code in the DDX driver to keep the back buffer uptodate so > > that the 'flicker' is gone, and pageflipping looks just like normal > > swapbuffers. > > > > I've done this with t

[Dri-devel] Re: Improved pageflipping for tcl branch (and others eventually)

2002-05-20 Thread Michael
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:46:41PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Michael, > > I've added some code in the DDX driver to keep the back buffer uptodate so > that the 'flicker' is gone, and pageflipping looks just like normal > swapbuffers. > > I've done this with the miext/shadow module keeping t

Re: [Dri-devel] [TCL] Offloading blocking OpenGL calls. (was somethign interupts OpenGL call.)

2002-05-20 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can we repair the damage? That doesn't seem to have been that successful > in the past in terms of recovery / carrying on running the 3d app - > others have more knowledge here. If anything, cleanly exiting from 3d > and, if recovery is possible or the 2d

Re: [Dri-devel] [TCL] Offloading blocking OpenGL calls. (was somethign interupts OpenGL call.)

2002-05-20 Thread Michael
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:27:39PM -0700, Mike Mestnik wrote: > Now I'd like to tackel another problem, Quake3 is blocked durring this pause > (sometimes a long pause) This could result in poor sound and more inportantly > keybord performance. I don't know how to fix this withought using fork. S

[Dri-devel] IRC Meeting reminder

2002-05-20 Thread José Fonseca
Just to remind that the IRC meeting will be held at the usual time, 4:00pm EST (2100h UTC), i.e., 5 min. José Fonseca ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.spr

Re: [Dri-devel] [TCL] Offloading blocking OpenGL calls. (was somethign interupts OpenGL call.)

2002-05-20 Thread Mike Mestnik
--- Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the problem you're trying to fix? > > -- > Michael. "Incroment 2Was Not Idle!" See how the fprintf call was interupted. I found ought after some testing that there is a set amount of bytes that can be put into the buffer. Being less verbose fix

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon Direct3D sample driver(?)

2002-05-20 Thread Michael
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:44:11PM +0100, José Fonseca wrote: > In what way could this affect the DRI Radeon development if it holds true? > I suppose that some DRI developers already have some form of the source > code as part of a SDK, so I don't know if it has any relevance. I saw an interview

[Dri-devel] Radeon Direct3D sample driver(?)

2002-05-20 Thread José Fonseca
In the recent SlashDot interview to Alan Cox, the close/openness of NVidia drivers was briefly discussed. In one of the threads a anonymous claiming to be a former ATI employee defending the company mentioned that the next Direct3D sample driver source will be Radeon based. You can read it here h

Re: [Dri-devel] OS-templated DRM

2002-05-20 Thread Eric Anholt
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 03:44, Keith Whitwell wrote: > Is your latest code available somewhere? The latest code is still at: http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/sysdrm-2002-05-13.tar.gz (Haven't worked on it for a bit, waiting for decisions on what's going to happen with it). -- Eric Anholt <

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 support???

2002-05-20 Thread Kevin E Martin
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:15:25PM +0100, José Fonseca wrote: > Jan, > > On 2002.05.20 16:42 Jan Schmidt wrote: > > > > > > > On 2002.05.20 12:30 Martin Spott wrote: > > > >As this _is_ a FAQ it's already listet in the appropriate document. > > > >Wonder > > > >how it is called, this document ?

Re: [Dri-devel] Mach64 DMA, blits, AGP textures

2002-05-20 Thread Leif Delgass
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Felix Kühling wrote: > On Sat, 18 May 2002 11:30:28 -0400 (EDT) > Leif Delgass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did you have a 2D accelerated server running on another vt? The DDX saves > > and restores its register state on mode switches, so it could be a problem > > with

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 support???

2002-05-20 Thread José Fonseca
Jan, On 2002.05.20 16:42 Jan Schmidt wrote: > > > > On 2002.05.20 12:30 Martin Spott wrote: > > >As this _is_ a FAQ it's already listet in the appropriate document. > > >Wonder > > >how it is called, this document ? We call it "FAQ". > > > > > > > There are two FAQs documents in the DRI website

[Dri-devel] Improved pageflipping for tcl branch (and others eventually)

2002-05-20 Thread Keith Whitwell
Michael wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:44:00PM +, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Nice. How kludged is kludged? > > Attached. > > Most of it is just uncommenting what's already there, and adding a call > (probably in the wrong place as MakeCurrent seems to be called a lot, > hence the che

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 support???

2002-05-20 Thread Jan Schmidt
> On 2002.05.20 12:30 Martin Spott wrote: > >As this _is_ a FAQ it's already listet in the appropriate document. > >Wonder > >how it is called, this document ? We call it "FAQ". > > > > There are two FAQs documents in the DRI website. This question it's > addressed in the "Developer's FAQ" >

Re: [Dri-devel] [TCL] somethign(Signal? ) interupts Quake3 OpenGL call.

2002-05-20 Thread Michael
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:20:53PM -0700, Mike Mestnik wrote: > The problem is less noticeable in vanilla quake3. What is the problem you're trying to fix? -- Michael. ___ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a

Re: [Dri-devel] OS-templated DRM

2002-05-20 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:22:52PM +0100, Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > > I've got some time to take a look at this over the next couple of days. It > > > really depends how big the differences are - but probably we need to come up > > > with a way of doing things without too much #ifdef crud in t

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 support???

2002-05-20 Thread Ian Molton
On Mon, 20 May 2002 13:38:48 +0100 José Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are two FAQs documents in the DRI website. This question it's > addressed in the "Developer's FAQ" > (http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/hardware.html#RADEON-8500-PLANS), > which perhaps isn't as straightforw

Re: [Dri-devel] OS-templated DRM

2002-05-20 Thread Keith Whitwell
> > I've got some time to take a look at this over the next couple of days. It > > really depends how big the differences are - but probably we need to come up > > with a way of doing things without too much #ifdef crud in the main code -- > > whether this means we need an abstraction layer, mor

Re: [Dri-devel] OS-templated DRM

2002-05-20 Thread Jens Owen
Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Eric Anholt wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:59, Jens Owen wrote: > > > Eric, > > > > > > The watermark I would apply for measuring the success of OS-templating > > > is device indepedence. If all device specific code can go into the > > > shared/drm/kernel direc

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 support???

2002-05-20 Thread José Fonseca
On 2002.05.20 12:30 Martin Spott wrote: > > I'm just wondering how the development for this chip is coming along? > > I'm planning on getting the 7500 but if dri support for the 8500 is far > > enough along I will wait. > > As this _is_ a FAQ it's already listet in the appropriate document. > Won

Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 support???

2002-05-20 Thread Martin Spott
> I'm just wondering how the development for this chip is coming along? > I'm planning on getting the 7500 but if dri support for the 8500 is far > enough along I will wait. As this _is_ a FAQ it's already listet in the appropriate document. Wonder how it is called, this document ? We call it "FA

Re: [Dri-devel] OS-templated DRM

2002-05-20 Thread Keith Whitwell
Eric Anholt wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:59, Jens Owen wrote: > > Eric, > > > > The watermark I would apply for measuring the success of OS-templating > > is device indepedence. If all device specific code can go into the > > shared/drm/kernel directory and only device independent code is

Re: [Dri-devel] OS-templated DRM

2002-05-20 Thread Eric Anholt
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 16:59, Jens Owen wrote: > Eric, > > The watermark I would apply for measuring the success of OS-templating > is device indepedence. If all device specific code can go into the > shared/drm/kernel directory and only device independent code is found in > the OS specific dire

[Dri-devel] Mach64 bus mastering abilities (final test result!)

2002-05-20 Thread José Fonseca
On 2002.05.16 21:37 José Fonseca wrote: > ... I'm gonna devise a test for that: it will monitor the BM_GUI_TABLE > value and change the value at the last moment (like waiting for the > train to come to cross the line!) > > ... Here is the commented output of such a test that waits for the card