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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 1999 08:52:36 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        van.woerkom@netcologne.de, marc@freeamp.org
Cc:        ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp, osa@etrust.ru, multimedia@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: riva-glx (3d hardware acceleration) port
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907170850410.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199907161020.DAA03273@freeamp.org>

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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 marc@freeamp.org wrote:

> > The glx implementation has a couple of bugs too. It can't cope with
> > 256x256 textures (a bug in the glx protocol code which is fixed in the
> > current glx sources). 
> 
> I would like to sync with the latest sources and fill the patches directory
> but I have had closer looks so far only on the nvidia stuff.
> 
> Dunno anything more about glx origin than
> 
>     http://glx.on.openprojects.net/
> 
> (which is very Linux und Matrox G200 centric BTW) right now.
> Will investigate tonight.

This is where I have taken the sources from. They have integrated the tnt
driver and are maintaining it as far as I can see.

> 
> This link indicates that there is some benchmark suite available
> 
>     http://glx.on.openprojects.net/benchmarks.html
> 
> and possibly there is also a GL testsuite somewhere. 

Don't know about that

> 
> 
> > The tnt driver also doesn't support glTexCoord4f()
> > but I have a fix for that.
> 
> The packages for the RIVA 128 etc and TNT etc are the same.
> For some reason they were just called riva-glx and riva_glx.
> 
> I found that the visual bugs I experience are related to fonts
> handling somehow. Different font, different effects.

I have the same problems with fonts.

> 
> Regards,
> Marc
> 
> P.S. 
> 
> Has email submission to freebsd.org been made been more strict?
> 
> I found several emails defered in my /var/spool/mqueue
> because hub.freebsd.org could not resolve my hostname
> (which is not valid, as I my provider assigns IPs dynamically only and
>  assigns no systemnames)
> 
> This was no problem before (I found a sendmail.cf to work around this) 
> since this week it is. 

I haven't noticed anything strange. You might try asking Jonathan Bresler
who is in charge of all mail-related matters.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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