Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
I am a Mesa/DRI user for few years (Voodoo1, Voodoo3, Radeon 9100, Radeon 9800) and always there were some problems with hardware acceleration of some applications. If I remember correctly there was a problem with wrong texture format or size, usage of some more advanced features and now - just

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Deucher
On 6/29/06, Jacek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Mesa/DRI user for few years (Voodoo1, Voodoo3, Radeon 9100, Radeon 9800) and always there were some problems with hardware acceleration of some applications. If I remember correctly there was a problem with wrong texture format or

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Jerome Glisse
On 6/30/06, Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/29/06, Jacek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a Mesa/DRI user for few years (Voodoo1, Voodoo3, Radeon 9100, Radeon 9800) and always there were some problems with hardware acceleration of some applications. If I remember correctly

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Jacek Poplawski
Hardware acceleration is always on assuming your system is set upproperly.If an application uses a feature that is not supported by hardware, you have to fall back to software if you want theapplication to run. But in that case many applications won't run correctly, because they are tested with

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Alex Deucher
On 6/30/06, Jacek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware acceleration is always on assuming your system is set up properly. If an application uses a feature that is not supported by hardware, you have to fall back to software if you want the application to run. But in that case

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Brian Paul
Jacek Poplawski wrote: Hardware acceleration is always on assuming your system is set up properly. If an application uses a feature that is not supported by hardware, you have to fall back to software if you want the application to run. But in that case many

Re: Why DRI/Mesa turns off hardware acceleration instead disabling features?

2006-06-30 Thread Patrick McFarland
On Friday 30 June 2006 13:15, Jacek Poplawski wrote: Hardware acceleration is always on assuming your system is set up properly. If an application uses a feature that is not supported by hardware, you have to fall back to software if you want the application to run. But in that case