Re: old Mach32 and Mach64 servers

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
--- Dr Andrew C Aitchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a GATOS project to add 3D to those mach64 chips which support 3D; it has never been merged into the XFree86 driver. Xv may or may not have made it into the mach64 driver too. GATOS develops the Xv and video in/out features of

Re: old Mach32 and Mach64 servers

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Deucher
some mach64 mobility chips had a second crtc that was never supported. same thing with rage 128. I'm not sure about the accel engine on mach32, but I think mach64 is fairly well accelerated. If you want the databooks, register as a developer with ATI and request them (be patient). Also the old

Re: old Mach32 and Mach64 servers

2003-08-14 Thread James Maddison
There is a GATOS project to add 3D to those mach64 chips which support 3D; it has never been merged into the XFree86 driver. Xv may or may not have made it into the mach64 driver too. GATOS develops the Xv and video in/out features of ATI cards. the DRI developers have added 3D

Re: old Mach32 and Mach64 servers

2003-08-14 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me how good a job the old Mach32 and Mach64 servers did of taking advantage of the hardware capabilities of their respective silicon engines? Put another way, were there capabilities in the silicon that we did not use? If there are

Re: old Mach32 and Mach64 servers

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Roberts
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 06:36:04 -0700 (PDT), Alex Deucher wrote: some mach64 mobility chips had a second crtc that was never supported. same thing with rage 128. Same thing with most of the Savage chips, because I couldn't see an easy way to support it. Is this double-headed feature now common