Actually, now that I think about it, the problem may well lie with the fact
that I have font antialiasing enabled with qt-2.3.0 in KDE. It works well
for most things but some fonts are totally screwed.
As for the DRI site...the package is NICE. I have an ATI Radeon 32 DDR video
card that I just installed with DRI in mind. Now that I have hardware OpenGL
3d acceleration enabled, graphics and games go VERY well.
Running the Mesa toy app "gears" from an xterm gives me an average framerate
of 880. With nothing else running, I have seen > 1000 FPS. Fullscreen I get
160 fps. Before, without hardware accel, I would get around 100 fps in
default screen size and only about 23 fps fullscreen. The games Heretic2 and
Terminus look and run great. DRI was well worth the minor effort it took to
download and build (also had to rebuild my kernel to make it all play
together). If you have a decent video card with 3d accel capability other
than an Nvidia, I highly recommend the DRI code.
On Friday 06 April 2001 20:59, s wrote:
> Oh man, I don't know how to tell you this, but mine looked good; just as I
> imagine the author intended. However, changing encoding did kick it back
> to home page. I'm using a 17" monitor at 1024x768 with 12 pt. comic sans.
> I wish I had a suggestion for you.
> Informative site tho, thanx, I've bookmarked it for future reference.
> -s
>
> On Friday 06 April 2001 07:47 pm, you wrote:
> > Here is the link to the Direct Rendering page:
> > http://dri.sourceforge.net
> >
> > For an example of the problem select the Documentation link, then choose
> > either the User Guide link or the DRI Compilation Guide link. Scroll
> > down the page and you should find that some of the text on the page is
> > screwed up. On the Users Guide page, for instance, page down until you
> > get to XF86Config file section. There should be blocks of text in that
> > section that are displayed all screwy.
> >
> > Paging down in the Compilation Guide you should find similar blocks of
> > text that are screwed up. By screwed up I mean that ALL the text of that
> > block is rendered on top of itself and is thus, unreadable. On MOST
> > pages that this happens on, all you need to do is go to View -> Set
> > encoding and select something (I usually select Arabic at the top) and
> > this fixes it but on these DRI pages, you get kicked back to the homepage
> > instead.
> >
> > There are a few military pages that require SSL (which I do have) support
> > in the browser (which I have enabled in konqueror) but will not allow me
> > to connect because the sites tell me that I don't have SSL. Changing the
> > user agent to fake being IE doesn't help.
> >
> > On Friday 06 April 2001 18:09, s wrote:
> > > Hmmmm. Well, I don't go to exotic sites too often. I haven't had a
> > > problem. Hey, would you post one or two of those links so I can test
> > > mine out? -s
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