Re: [Dri-devel] Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-28 Thread Steve Urquhart
Gareth Hughes wrote: > Sure, but not to people in the general open source community, and with > the demise of PI/VA, I would say the chances of a driver done by anyone > other than ATI are slim to nil. Isn't that what we're talking about? I agree that the general open source community is not a

RE: [Dri-devel] Re: Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Stohr
> From: Carl Busjahn > > I have to disagree. If people are really concered about performance > they should be using Linux anyway. What David said is also > true. I'm > not going to reccomend a company that doesn't support Linux. We also > know that Online games require good bandwidth, and

Re: [Dri-devel] compiling the CVS tree

2001-09-28 Thread Simon Fowler
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:12:10PM +0300, Janne P?nk?l? wrote: > Ever since the CVS clean up it's been annoying to build the tree. > > I have so far used #define ProjectRoot /opt/X4 (in config/cf/site.def) > > and this leads to annoyances with libraries and stuff. > > X libraries & incs are ins

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-28 Thread Carl Busjahn
I have to disagree. If people are really concered about performance they should be using Linux anyway. What David said is also true. I'm not going to reccomend a company that doesn't support Linux. We also know that Online games require good bandwidth, and the Linux tcp/ip stack just tears

Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-28 Thread Peter Surda
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:21:37PM -0700, David Bronaugh wrote: > If you look at it from a purely monentary point of view, yes, you are most > likely correct. Not only from monetary point of view. > However, one has to remember that a LOT of people that run Linux are > "computer people" that user

[Dri-devel] compiling the CVS tree

2001-09-28 Thread Janne Pänkälä
Ever since the CVS clean up it's been annoying to build the tree. I have so far used #define ProjectRoot /opt/X4 (in config/cf/site.def) and this leads to annoyances with libraries and stuff. X libraries & incs are installed in /usr/X11R6/{lib,include}/ but build process nolonger seems to care

[Dri-devel] Re: Radeon 8500, what's the plan?

2001-09-28 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dacobi Coding wrote: >> Dacobi Coding wrote: >> > Hello people! >... >> >> Not to say that ATI won't switch to a binary-only driver as well, but >> anyway... > >But are they planing to, or have they allready releaced the specs >for the new Radeon chips? And I mean full specs