On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 01:33, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote:
> On 18 Aug 2002, Michel [ISO-8859-1] D�nzer wrote:
> 
> > Not yet. You can try a patch posted here earlier, unfortunately it
> > doesn't seem to fix all problems.
> 
> Given that the Radeon driver seems to have gone through a significant
> rewrite (correct me if I'm wrong)

That's exaggerated. There have been large changes both by ATI and Kevin
E. Martin (the driver maintainer), but nowhere near a rewrite.

> since I first reported the clipping
> problems, is there a reason that either A) the hardware clipping hasn't
> been fixed or B) the hardware clipping simply hasn't been turned off by
> default on Radeon cards?

I have posted a patch which attempts to do A) and you can easily do B)
yourself.

> Is ATI not giving out the data?  Is there a hardware lack?  Or is it
> something more subtle?

Mostly lack of time for Kevin I guess.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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