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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:44:18 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: changes in linux ports infrastructure
Message-ID:  <23039453@ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909160832200.69728@thor.farley.org> (Sean C. Farley's message of "Wed\, 16 Sep 2009 08\:40\:49 -0500 \(CDT\)")
References:  <80173957@bb.ipt.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909160832200.69728@thor.farley.org>

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"Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote:
>
>> Dear linux ports maintainers,
>>
>> I've just committed a new graphics/linux-f10-libGLU port and
>> apropriate changes to linux ports infrastructure. I'm going to
>> commit the following patch which uses the new port and its
>> infrastructure.
>>
>> The main goal is to give users of linux nvidia drivers to use more
>> recent libGLU packages.
>>
>> Those changes do not touch default packages but imho it will be good
>> to commit the patch before 8.0-RELEASE. Please, give it a try and
>> submit a followup. Thanks!
>
> The patch to games/linux-nwnclient does work.  When you commit it,
> would you also apply the following patch which helps a bit?  :)  I
> think it has been broken since March, but I just noticed.

Hm, yes, I see it. I'll move the NVIDIA test down, just before PLIST_SUB,
if you don't mind (as it is done at other ports).

> Two things I have noticed in regard to this port, the Nvidia driver
> and Fedora 8 or 10 as base:
> 1. Performance is poor until you change the resolution.  It does not
>    matter what the starting resolution or the changed resolution is.
>    Changing back to the starting resolution keeps the good performance.
>    This is very odd.

Which video card/driver/dri/linux-dri port are you using? 

> 2. The game core dumps upon exit, but I have not had time to look into
>    this.

Can't say anything about this case.

-- 
WBR, bsam



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