Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Lance Stringham wrote: > > >>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. >> > > Well, I contacted their support, explainging the situation. They > suggested that perhaps I had a version of Mesa on my computer that was > interfering. So I uninstalled their server, removed every GL library left > on my machine, and then reinstalled. And I still had the same problems > :-) > > Adam > > > >
Weird &-). Personally though, I'm not inclined to pay a hundred bucks to use their drivers when the DRI has decent drivers for free, so I quit messing around with them. Thanks for the great work on the DRI. -Lance Stringham _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
