On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:51:08 -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: >On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:23:07AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote: >-snip- >> [I only have a generic ATI xserver installed so I guess that's why the >> pretty GL screensavers are slow - does anyone know which xserver is >> good for giving OpenGL with an ATI Rage Pro ?] > >I am not sure if this is the main site for mach64 dri information but >here is what I found: > >http://dri.sourceforge.net/ <- main dri page >http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_status.html <- Mach64 specific
Thanks (to Michael Thaler as well as Chris) for these pointers. I'll download the RetinalBurn xserver binary and see what happens. FWIW, I just found a pointer at http://dri.sourceforge.net/ to some other Mach64 binaries at http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-mach64/ which I'll also try. >Mach64 dri afaik is not supported in XFree86 4.2 and probably not in >4.3 either. Mach64 based video cards were new technology around 1997 so >even once dri works for the cards it will still be fairly slow by >today's standards. Understood - I'm not expecting great results - but the machine concerned is a Dell Optiplex GX1 400 MHz which is a standard workhorse around my workplace - my employer bought hundreds of them for Y2K and now we have quite a few in storerooms. I'm basically just trying to build a reference Woody/KDE3.1 setup on one of them to see if I can impress my colleagues enough to make them want one on their desk, as well as their normal Win2K workstations ... And you know what programmers are like ;-) ... they always want snazzy screensavers to go with the office apps and that nifty development environment - they're bound to draw comparisons with the ones they can get from M$ .. I know it's only surface gloss, but it's a hearts and minds thing. FWIW, the colleagues who're watching what I'm doing are already pretty impressed with KDE3.1 - and it seems just as fast as Win2K on the same hardware .. maybe faster. Thanks for the help. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- "Teach a man to make fire; he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire; he will be warm for the rest of his life."
