Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I recently found out that Xi Graphics (http://www.xig.com), a company >>that provides accelerated 3D drivers for UNIX systems (including Linux), >> claimed that their drivers performances are much better than the DRI >>drivers for most graphic chips. >> >>Has any of you heard about them, and has been able to test their drivers >>? Not that I want to switch to a proprietary driver (I'd never trade >>freedom for 5 more images per second), but I think it would be >>interesting to know if this is vaporware, and learn about the technology >>they use. >> >>Anyway, thanks to all DRI developpers for their great work. >> >>Laurent Pinchart >> > > I tried the demo of their server on my Radeon 7500. I was not impressed, > at all. Though I was obviously getting hardware acceleration (I was > getting framerates over what's possible with software rendering on my > machine), nearly every app I tried performed pretty lousy compared to the > DRI drivers, despite the fact that the Xig server supports the TCL unit on > the Radeon. In addition, most games I tried had significant rendering > issues, and none would play full screen due to the fact the Xig uses their > own fullscreen extension. > > Adam > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > >
I had some of the same issues until I discovered there custom libGL.so.1 shoved deep into there AcceleratedX modules directory. Swapping it with the XFree supplied one fixed the rendering issues but alas, no full sceen. _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
