Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 / R200 status?
Major A wrote: I heard a while ago that some company was sponsoring the development of a proper DRI driver for the ATI R200 -- can someone briefly update me as to what the status of that driver is in the latest release and in CVS? Is it a worthy replacement (in OpenGL performance and stability) for the ATI binary-only driver? The development of the r200 drivers is sponsored by The Weather Channel. Both 2D and 3D should basically work in the latest X release. 3D can be somewhat unstable, if you're unlucky. But I just tried latest mesa-4-1-branch CVS, and it seems to work very well (no crashes in return to castle wolfenstein anymore). I haven't used ATI's proprietary drivers for quite a while now, so I can't really compare. Performance is still a bit sloppy, but I hope that'll improve. As a summary, I think you should give the drivers a try. 2D support is better IMHO, as it includes XV-support. I don't know the status of the multi-head capabilities of the open-source drivers compared to the closed ones. Thanks a lot, Andras --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500 / R200 status?
Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 15:01 schrieb Stefan Lange: Major A wrote: I heard a while ago that some company was sponsoring the development of a proper DRI driver for the ATI R200 -- can someone briefly update me as to what the status of that driver is in the latest release and in CVS? Is it a worthy replacement (in OpenGL performance and stability) for the ATI binary-only driver? The development of the r200 drivers is sponsored by The Weather Channel. Both 2D and 3D should basically work in the latest X release. 3D can be somewhat unstable, if you're unlucky. But I just tried latest mesa-4-1-branch CVS, and it seems to work very well (no crashes in return to castle wolfenstein anymore). I haven't used ATI's proprietary drivers for quite a while now, so I can't really compare. Performance is still a bit sloppy, but I hope that'll improve. Somethings wouldn't make it into XFree86 DRI ever (?) is HyperZ, SmoothVision etc. S3TC is still missing, too. Not much hope, yet. Or any progress, Brian? -Dieter --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html ___ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
