Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Paul
Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: Brian Paul wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:42, Brian Paul wrote: If direct rendering is not available, we use indirect rendering (send GL drawing commands over the wire to the Xserver). The Xserver in turn executes the GL commands. Does that als

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-13 Thread Erling A. Jacobsen
Brian Paul wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:42, Brian Paul wrote: If direct rendering is not available, we use indirect rendering (send GL drawing commands over the wire to the Xserver). The Xserver in turn executes the GL commands. Does that also include the case where clie

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Paul
Alan Cox wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:42, Brian Paul wrote: If direct rendering is not available, we use indirect rendering (send GL drawing commands over the wire to the Xserver). The Xserver in turn executes the GL commands. So am I correct in thinking server side acceleration for old

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:42, Brian Paul wrote: > If direct rendering is not available, we use indirect rendering (send GL > drawing commands over the wire to the Xserver). The Xserver in turn executes > the GL commands. So am I correct in thinking server side acceleration for old hardware that

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Paul
Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: Alan Cox wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 16:45, Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: The good old Mesa-3.4.2 can be Voodoo Graphics enabled by having it include the FX subdirectory, so why shouldn't it still work ? Its possible to write a DRI driver layer for the Voodoo1/Voodoo

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Paul
Alan Cox wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:54, Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: Perhaps the dri-devel list isn't the right place to be, because what I have in mind is indeed not a DRI driver, rather a modification of the version of Mesa which DRI uses if there's no hardware-accelerated DRI-driver availab

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 19:54, Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: > Perhaps the dri-devel list isn't the right place to be, because > what I have in mind is indeed not a DRI driver, rather a modification > of the version of Mesa which DRI uses if there's no hardware-accelerated > DRI-driver available. But sti

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-12 Thread Erling A. Jacobsen
Alan Cox wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 16:45, Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: The good old Mesa-3.4.2 can be Voodoo Graphics enabled by having it include the FX subdirectory, so why shouldn't it still work ? Its possible to write a DRI driver layer for the Voodoo1/Voodoo2 X server. Nobody has done s

Re: [Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics...

2003-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 16:45, Erling A. Jacobsen wrote: > The good old Mesa-3.4.2 can be Voodoo Graphics enabled by having > it include the FX subdirectory, so why shouldn't it still work ? Its possible to write a DRI driver layer for the Voodoo1/Voodoo2 X server. Nobody has done so and I can't see

[Dri-devel] Newbie (to DRI) wants support for Voodoo Graphics ...

2003-01-12 Thread Erling A. Jacobsen
even in spite of what the experts say: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1506938&forum_id=7177 I run Red Hat Linux 7.3, and have a Voodoo Graphics card. I am prepared to fiddle with the sources myself, basically by installing the sources from the SRPM, adding and changing th