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 there was a problem with wrong texture > > format or size, usage of some more advanced features and now - just > > smoothing on r300. > > > > I just read comment for this bug: > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7359 > > > > Isn't good solution for Mesa to ask user what is more important - hardware > > acceleration or some feature? > > 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. HW acceleration is still used for the other > aspects of the app. if you just ignore non-implemented features, > you'll probably get rendering errors in many cases. Forcing non > smooth lines works in the case of google earth, but may not for other > apps. > > Alex >
Moreover such situation may only happen for in development driver. r300 driver is still in development, lot of feature are missing. Thus i think it will be a burden to add such flag and dev will loose time doing that while they could simply work on the feature. best, Jerome Glisse Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
