On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Brian Paul wrote:
> I haven't read the 3dfx newsgroups in quite a while. What was the
> problem?
>
> I don't know if I'd like Mesa to print a warning if you don't have
> MESA_GLX_FX set.
The problem is that we see about a half dozen messages a week
(on various Quake/Linux/OpenGL/Mesa/3Dfx lists) complaining
about not being able to get hardware accelleration (due to an unset
MESA_GLX_FX). What we wanted was to emit a helpful message under
those circumstances - since it almost always *is* a user error when
there is hardware present but it's not being used.
The message is easy to shut off using the new option - and it
tells you how to do that.
> Mesa shouldn't print anything during normal operation.
I sympathise with your view - but I'd argue that for people
with 3Dfx hardware for which Mesa has been specifically
compiled, running Mesa without MESA_GLX_FX set is **not**
"normal operation".
At any rate, we need to do SOMETHING to cut down the
volume of people having this problem. It's a tradeoff
between ideology and practicality.
Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
Raytheon Systems Inc. (817)619-2466 (Fax)
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