Ian Romanick wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > And there is no one involved with DRI with assets to pay such an
> > award anyway.
>
> Except all the distros.
How is that an argument against DRI implementing S3TC? If the
distribution vendors don't want to ship it because o
magenta wrote:
> But they're not transferring the license to others, they're just
> providing a reference implementation. nVidia themselves wouldn't be
> sued for it, but someone releasing new software using that
> implementation could be.
By that same logic, DRI can't be sued for providing the c
magenta wrote:
> You don't understand how patents work, do you? All of those people
> (except OpenIL, anyway) have licensed the algorithm itself. The
> algorithm is freely-available (it's even part of the patent
> documents). The problem is that S3 haven't released the patent to the
> public dom
Ian Romanick wrote:
> Heh...look at demos/texwrap.c in Mesa. This does basically the same
> thing, but it enumerates all of the advertised modes, even the
> various mirror modes.
Silly me. Why bother trying to learn about something and share the
knowlege when I could have just... what, exactly?
Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > ATI blows you guys away in glxgears. I see 38% faster frame rates
> > with their drivers.
>
> Actually what gears does most is glClear and glXSwapBuffers, with a
> small amount of glCallList. You can speed up swapbuffers by tu
Keith Whitwell wrote:
> Andy Ross wrote:
> > Is it possible [...] to get the client-side libGL to look somethere
> > *other* that /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri for drivers?
>
> It's LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH
Perfect. Thanks.
> > You also don't exhibit a texture bor
I finally got a chance over the weekend to try out the current DRI
code on my new 8500 card and compare it with the offering from ATI.
The following is a cheers & jeers style review. Hopefully someone
will find it helpful.
My setup: 950MHz Athlon (early/pre-thunderbird), KT133 motherboard,
OEM 85
Scott Harrison wrote:
> Thought you might like to apply the patch so others can have DRI on
> the Radeon 9000 and 9700 cards.
Question from the peanut gallery: does this work with the 9700? I was
under the impression that the 9000 was just a modified R200, which
might be expected to be software-c
