Interesting! It would be even more interesting if you could test the GeForce with
XFree 4.0. Make sure you download the latest drivers from NVidia (released last
week I think).
Andreas Micklei wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just wanted to give a status update on my experiences with Java3D and
> hardware acceleration:
>
> The problems I had with Java3D obviously resultet in bugs in Utah-GLX, so
> Java3D is not really to blame (the behaviour was just a bit confusing). Here
> are some of my results:
>
> GFX hardware OpenGL implementation Result
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Matrox G400 XFree 3.3.6 / Mesa 3.2 / Works. VERY slow.
> Software rendering
>
> Matrox G400 XFree 3.3.6 / Mesa 3.2 / Does not show
> Utah-GLX-20000626 textures. Crashes
> occasionally.
> Non-textured rendering
> is reasonable fast.
>
> nVidea GForce XFree 3.3.6 / Mesa 3.2 / Same as G400.
> Utah-GLX-20000626
>
> Matrox G200 XFree 4.0 (includes Mesa 3.3) Black picture. The
> / DRI Framerate is
> impressive however.
> ;-)
>
> Matrox G400 XFree 4.0 (includes Mesa 3.3) Crashes.
> / DRI
>
> Matrox G400 Xi-Graphics Accelerated-X Works. VERY fast.
> (Demo version 1.1)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So for now the only viable option I know of if Accelerated-X. Using a 3Dfx
> board with hardware accelerated Mesa on Glide probably also works, but I have
> not tested this. The XFree 4.0 test are not finished yet. A test with the
> GForce, as well as using different kernel versions might give other results.
>
> bye...
> Andreas Micklei
>
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> IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG
> Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin
> http://www.ivistar.de
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