Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Fred Heitkamp
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Fred Heitkamp wrote: If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They probably use a Mac

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Sven Luther wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:58:56 +0200 From: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.) I've responded to Sven off list, simply because

Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Billy Biggs
The 'Athlon related mystery' thread concluded by recommending the removal of O_SYNC on the open to /dev/mem to solve performance problems in SuSE's XFree86 packages [1]. I still have many users with similar performance problems, and I want to know how to better debug it. 1. A SuSE user with

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Richard A. Hecker wrote: I encounter this all the time. If someone asks me Why does your product version x.y not support foo? and I delete their mail, they are none the wiser. They are unlikely to flame me, or to even know if I got it. I will add my own Rant here.

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:29, Billy Biggs wrote: 1. A SuSE user with a Radeon 8500, P4 1.8, that gets 133fps with xvtest, but seemingly good performance from x11perf -shmput500 [2]. The radeon driver uses the CP for image writes, does Option XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect have a

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Billy Biggs
Michel Dänzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:29, Billy Biggs wrote: 1. A SuSE user with a Radeon 8500, P4 1.8, that gets 133fps with xvtest, but seemingly good performance from x11perf -shmput500 [2]. The radeon driver uses the CP for image writes, does

Re: Any clues - TuxRacer Incorrect Rendering

2003-07-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 23:25, Chris Edgington wrote: Working on my last known bug in the SM731 support in the siliconmotion driver. Using the current siliconmotion driver and my newly modified driver on the SM722 hardware, running TuxRacer from RH9 works fine. TuxRacer (or probably more

More IPv6 RedHat 6.2 problems compiles but doesn't work

2003-07-21 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
This is with RedHat 6.2. The latest IPv6 fixes allow X to compile, but remote connections no longer work on a machione without IPv6 configured. I've recompiled with XTRANSDEBUG set high (5 I think): % xbiff -display localhost:0 _X11TransOpenCOTSClient(tcp/localhost:0)

Re: Solution for 855GM video memory issue

2003-07-21 Thread Egbert Eich
This could easily be integrated in the driver (it would be much more easy to do than writing a separate program) but like you say in your disclaimer: we cannot guarantee that nothing bad happens. Therefore I don't think it is the way to go. However what I find more interesting is that you updated

Re: More IPv6 RedHat 6.2 problems compiles but doesn't work

2003-07-21 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote (in a message from Monday 21) This is with RedHat 6.2. The latest IPv6 fixes allow X to compile, but remote connections no longer work on a machione without IPv6 configured. I've recompiled with XTRANSDEBUG set high (5 I think): % xbiff -display localhost:0

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Richard A. Hecker
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 08:04:56AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Richard A. Hecker wrote: I will add my own Rant here. Ignoring email from Joe Public who bought his 'Puter from Walmart' might work, but I feel 'Dissed' when a person insults my intelligence with this

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Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: The 'Athlon related mystery' thread concluded by recommending the removal of O_SYNC on the open to /dev/mem to solve performance problems in SuSE's XFree86 packages [1]. I still have many users with similar performance problems, and I want to know

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 2. An i815 with a Celeron 800, MX3S-T motherboard. Gets about 60fps using xvtest, 273 blits/sec with x11perf -shmput500 at 16bpp, using Gentoo xfree-4.3.0-r2. Does not use O_SYNC on /dev/mem.

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Billy Biggs
Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, how hard do you think it would be to do triple buffering in the NVIDIA driver for this same problem? NVIDIA hardware can only double buffer. Using more buffers than two would require queuing them up and programming the new buffers in

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Jay Cotton
Win: I agree with the spirit of your statement, but I don't want the government involved in any part of what I do for a living or a hobby. I agree that M$'s size is a problem now, but I am certain that they will not be dominant forever. Large companies do fail, and they do get smaller. JC

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, how hard do you think it would be to do triple buffering in the NVIDIA driver for this same problem? NVIDIA hardware can only double buffer. Using more buffers than two would require

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Billy Biggs
Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, how hard do you think it would be to do triple buffering in the NVIDIA driver for this same problem? NVIDIA hardware can only double buffer.

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Mark Vojkovich
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Billy Biggs wrote: Mark Vojkovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, how hard do you think it would be to do triple buffering in the NVIDIA driver for this same problem?

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Kendall Bennett
Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there more hardware or BIOS configurations can I check that can change video memory performance? These XVIDEO drivers usually do nothing more than a memcpy(), at least for SiS and i815. My list: - MTRRs enabled (they almost always are). -

Re: Rant (was Re: ATI Drivers.)

2003-07-21 Thread Kendall Bennett
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do these companies not open source their complete drivers? Because they have intellectual property in their drivers that As if their concurent where not capable of reverse engineering the drivers. And if they did and they got caught, their

Re: Performance problems revisited

2003-07-21 Thread Kendall Bennett
Mark Vojkovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FastWrite capability of P4 processors greatly increases the CPU throughput to the framebuffer. You mean the FastWrite capability of the AGP bus/card in AGP4x/8x specs, or are you talking about something different and specific to P4 processors?

Driver for 69030

2003-07-21 Thread Nitin Mahajan
Title: Message Hello Everyone! Iam writing a driver for 69030 card. I have to support CIF and QCIF formats. 1. The format says that a frame rate of 30fps is required for both. 2.Each frame should have a. 144 lines and 176 pixels/line for QCIF. b.288 lines and 352 pixels/line for