Oops, brain fart. I meant to say this: I think the deal might be that their drivers are optimized for professional applications, like CAD, and whatever else the SPECViewPerf benchmark measures, not games. That would explain a lot of things: non-standard fullscreen interface, the cost, the fact that they sell it for Solaris, and last but certainly not least, the price.
> Lance Stringham wrote: > >> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Lance Stringham wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I recently found out that Xi Graphics (http://www.xig.com), a >>>>>> company that provides accelerated 3D drivers for UNIX systems >>>>>> (including Linux), claimed that their drivers performances are >>>>>> much better than the DRI drivers for most graphic chips. >>>>>> >>>>>> Has any of you heard about them, and has been able to test their >>>>>> drivers ? Not that I want to switch to a proprietary driver (I'd >>>>>> never trade freedom for 5 more images per second), but I think it >>>>>> would be interesting to know if this is vaporware, and learn about >>>>>> the technology they use. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyway, thanks to all DRI developpers for their great work. >>>>>> >>>>>> Laurent Pinchart >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> I tried the demo of their server on my Radeon 7500. I was not >>>>> impressed, >>>>> at all. Though I was obviously getting hardware acceleration (I was >>>>> getting framerates over what's possible with software rendering on my >>>>> machine), nearly every app I tried performed pretty lousy compared >>>>> to the >>>>> DRI drivers, despite the fact that the Xig server supports the TCL >>>>> unit on >>>>> the Radeon. In addition, most games I tried had significant rendering >>>>> issues, and none would play full screen due to the fact the Xig >>>>> uses their >>>>> own fullscreen extension. >>>>> >>>>> Adam >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Dri-devel mailing list >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I had some of the same issues until I discovered there custom >>>> libGL.so.1 shoved deep into there AcceleratedX modules directory. >>>> Swapping it with the XFree supplied one fixed the rendering issues >>>> but alas, no full sceen. >>>> >>> >>> Well, I contacted their support, explainging the situation. They >>> suggested that perhaps I had a version of Mesa on my computer that was >>> interfering. So I uninstalled their server, removed every GL library >>> left >>> on my machine, and then reinstalled. And I still had the same problems >>> :-) >>> >>> Adam >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> Weird &-). Personally though, I'm not inclined to pay a hundred bucks >> to use their drivers when the DRI has decent drivers for free, so I >> quit messing around with them. Thanks for the great work on the DRI. >> >> -Lance Stringham >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dri-devel mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
