Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 15:01 schrieb Stefan Lange: > Major A wrote: > > I heard a while ago that some company was sponsoring the development > > of a proper DRI driver for the ATI R200 -- can someone briefly update > > me as to what the status of that driver is in the latest release and > > in CVS? Is it a worthy replacement (in OpenGL performance and > > stability) for the ATI binary-only driver? > > The development of the r200 drivers is sponsored by The Weather Channel. > > Both 2D and 3D should basically work in the latest X release. 3D can be > somewhat unstable, if you're unlucky. But I just tried latest > mesa-4-1-branch CVS, and it seems to work very well (no crashes in > return to castle wolfenstein anymore). I haven't used ATI's proprietary > drivers for quite a while now, so I can't really compare. Performance is > still a bit sloppy, but I hope that'll improve.
Somethings wouldn't make it into XFree86 DRI ever (?) is HyperZ, SmoothVision etc. S3TC is still missing, too. Not much hope, yet. Or any progress, Brian? -Dieter ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
