On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:43:03AM -0700, Brian Paul wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > >On Don, 2002-12-12 at 15:29, Martin Spott wrote: > > > >>>XFree86 4.3 is going to go with a Mesa 4.0.x-based DRI because of time > >>>constraints and stability concerns. [...] > >> > >>I didn't notice the Mesa-5.x-based stuff is less stable than the stuff you > >>chose for XFree86-4.3, > > > > > >I'd mostly agree, but I guess the floating point exceptions are > >showstoppers. > > It's still not clear what the cause of this is. I've heard two > possibilities: > > 1. The new gcc (3.2 ?) emits MMX or SSE code unless you inhibit it with > a command line switch. > > 2. A bogus test in Mesa determines that newer P4 processors have 3Dnow > support. This was fixed in the Mesa/src/X86/common_x86_asm.S file last > month.
Neither of these explain the sigfpe that Andreas Stenglein and I have been experiencing. Both of us have been building with gcc 2.95: this eliminates 1. In addition, I have confirmed that I've been running the fixed code: this eliminates 2. See (a.o.) the mail with subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Radeon: lockup on state change Thanks, Charl -- charl p. botha http://cpbotha.net/ http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
