Johannes Engel wrote:
> Thomas Hellström wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> Tungsten Graphics has decided to push an updated version of i915tex, 
>> that works with the latest xf86-video-intel and drm. The driver will be 
>> available on the mesa i915tex-branch, which is based off the mesa_7_0 
>> branch.
>>     
> Hi, Thomas!
>
> I just tested the new code. It is *very* fast compared to the code from
> master branch on my 945GM.
>   
It's using substantially less CPU for the buffer management, so 
depending on your hardware
configuration you see this as either higher frame-rates or lower cpu-usage.

> But as well as using master there is one thing I do not quite understand:
>
> glxinfo's output shows for example GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap for both
> server and client but not in the "GLX extensions" section. If I disable
> drm it appears at all of the three sections:
>
> server glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
> GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
>     GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
>     GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> client glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> client glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
>     GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
>     GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
>     GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
>     GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
>     GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
> GLX extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
>     GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
>     GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
>     GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 945GM 20061102 x86/MMX/SSE2
> OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2
>
> What's that about?
>
>   
Oh, I'm far from a high level mesa / GL / GLX expert. I think this 
question needs to be passed
on to the guys who really know.

> Greetings, Johannes
>
>   
Regards,
Thomas.




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