Stephen J Baker wrote:
>
> 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.
I see. If the message is only printed when the 3Dfx driver is compiled
in then that's not too bad. I guess we can try that and see if we get
any negative complaints.
-Brian
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