Lance Stringham wrote: > 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 > >
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